caliginousface
Frank N. Beans
Just a question for you cloud surfers and teachers. Not so much of a problem with more wide open airspace, but in terminal areas like the SF Bay Area, it's most def not unheard of to have your filed route completely change. In this case, when you pick up your clearance before departure, do you have your students recalculate ground speeds, fuel burns, ETE's and so on? I remember during my instrument training they would totally change my routing but we'd just fly the new routing without recalculating. Any thoughts?
Then about flaps. I had a student fly with another instructor who ended up scaring my student out of extending flaps during extended downwind turning base citing "you increased your chance of a stall" by doing so. I thought about it, sure flaps lower stall speed, but the AOA at which you stall is now decreased, which i thought would only be an issue if you were pitching up while putting the flaps down. After going through that in my head, I still didn't feel it was worth freaking out about.
Hanyway, wasssuppppppppp.
Then about flaps. I had a student fly with another instructor who ended up scaring my student out of extending flaps during extended downwind turning base citing "you increased your chance of a stall" by doing so. I thought about it, sure flaps lower stall speed, but the AOA at which you stall is now decreased, which i thought would only be an issue if you were pitching up while putting the flaps down. After going through that in my head, I still didn't feel it was worth freaking out about.
Hanyway, wasssuppppppppp.