Stalls

[amjon]

I was all worried about doing stalls for my last lesson. First we did slow flight, then power off stalls. Once we did the first one I was totally unconcerned. (We haven't done power on stalls yet.) After that,my instructor says we are doing steep turns. Then I got scared. When he demonstrated the first one I was terrified. Then he says, your turn. I tell him I don't know if I can, but he tells me to do it anyway. After the first one I was alittle more comfortable. The second one wasn't so bad. (I don't think I will ever LIKE them though.) I'm so glad my instructor is willing to put up with me. Is anyone else freaked out by steep turns?

 

[Douglas]

You will learn to enjoy them when you get more comfortable in your new environment.

Flight school is a bag of emotions.

 

[mshunter]

What exactly bothers you about steep turns?

 

[subpilot]

<--- They are much easier to perform from the front seat.





seriously, you will get used to them with time. Power on stalls are the most interesting in my opinion. Keep it up and good luck.

 

[imatworkallday]

Power on stalls are no big woop. After a couple you will look back and wonder why you were so nevous about them! If your lucky you will find that one particular 172 that just won't stall !I had one of those that I did most of my private training in. Once configured and attempting the stall I had to start eeking out power to get it to break . I love that plane!

 

[Stomp16]

You'll learn to love all the fun maneuvers. Especially when you enter the XC part of your training. Those get old after awhile and you wish you could just go do some stalls.

Although they are not required anymore, have your instructor show you spins. The first one you'll think you're going to wet yourself but after it's done you just can't get enough! Have fun with it!

 

[TXTBOOK]

I was pretty scared of stalls at first. Then I realized they are no big deal at all. I had this image of us falling out of the sky and it being a big panic emergency situation. In reality, I think my mother could recover a stall in my club's 172M.

Steep turns I actually really like. In fact, my instructor has told me more than once that I am turning a little too steep just in the pattern...

As far as spins, our club's aircraft won't spin, so I don't know much about that. I do plan on taking the emergency class at CP Aviation at Santa Paula shortly after I pass my checkride (whenever that is).

 

[amjon]

What exactly bothers you about steep turns?

I think it is just looking sideways and seeing the ground there. I'm fine if I have to look over and down, but just looking over and seeing the ground scares me.

 

[beasly]

I think it is just looking sideways and seeing the ground there. I'm fine if I have to look over and down, but just looking over and seeing the ground scares me.

I used to be very afraid of heights in the plane, but then one day I just trusted the wing--they really do their work well.

Its ok, to be afraid, keep working and eventually the fear will go away.

b.

 

[TXTBOOK]

Its ok, to be afraid, keep working and eventually the fear will go away.

b.

As someone who looks to be only a little farther in my training than the OP, I can really confirm this. The more you fly, the more comfortable you become. It's a time thing. Every time you go up you should feel more comfortable and confident in the airplane.

 

[bksslc]

Have fun with the power on stalls, they are a lot of fun :rawk:.

 

[poser765]

The only thing that bothers me about steep turns is they make me gassy. I don't know why, but i'm guessing it's the extra Gs doing strange things in my food tank. So yeah...they make me burpy.

 

[amjon]

I used to be very afraid of heights in the plane, but then one day I just trusted the wing--they really do their work well.

Its ok, to be afraid, keep working and eventually the fear will go away.

b.

What's weird is that I am not really worried about the plane falling. I also get scared walking across a bridge, even though I know it is perfectly safe. I think it will get better with more time.

 

[beasly]

What's weird is that I am not really worried about the plane falling. I also get scared walking across a bridge, even though I know it is perfectly safe. I think it will get better with more time.

I freak out on the top level of parking garages looking over the edge--and the ledge is up to my neck...still think I am going to fall over somehow.

The point is, fear is normal--you will (and I have) experienced it throughout my flying and at 950 hours, I get scared sometimes.

The key, is to discipline yourself to revert to your training when you are scared; after a while, your "consiousness" pokes through your fear and you realize "Hey! I can do this" and then you start looking for other challenges.

Aristotle (Socrates...who knows) said, "You become brave by doing courageous things."

Stick with it, you will be fine and at the other end, you will have a deep sense of well-earned accomplishment.

Let me give you another example--I have a lump in my gut over recovering from being inverted--I haven't done it, need to do it and am "nervous" about doing it, but will do it, because it will make me a better pilot. I have never done an accelerated stall--and I have the same nervousness you do about it. I will seek out a qualified instructor and learn to do it.

My point is, its learnable and the fear is manageable and by working through it you become something special--a pilot.

Cordially,

b.

 

[drunkenbeagle]

I freak out on the top level of parking garages looking over the edge--and the ledge is up to my neck...still think I am going to fall over somehow.

I'm scared to death of birds. I've had four near-misses with pelicans in the last year. And I'm always afraid of falling off ledges too, I can't get in a glass elevator with my eyes open.

 

[saria19]

Steep turns never bothered me, heck I had a problem with making them too steep sometimes. Stalls on the other hand, have always bothered me. Everyone I know in avaiation has one thing or another that bothers them. Don't be discouraged, you do get used to to them with time, and practice.

It took me until I was getting my CFI and I did spins to get over my fear.

 

[bksslc]

I always liked doing stalls, after my initial nervousness with my first one went away anyways. But i hate slow flight with a passion. There is just something about flying around right on the edge of a stall that i hate.

 

[shdw]

I'm scared to death of birds. I've had four near-misses with pelicans in the last year. And I'm always afraid of falling off ledges too, I can't get in a glass elevator with my eyes open.

haha I would be scared too if it were pelicans in my area and not just rats with wings, thats gotta be like slamming into a deer in our small planes.

 

[jhugz]

Go out and have a CFI spin you. Once spun a couple times you learn that this is the very worst thing that can happen to you from a stall and that it isn't to bad. It is very difficult to get into and very easy to recover from in a skyhawk that is. It may sound drastic and I am sure I will get flamed on this but the day I intro stalls is the day I intro a spin. I will not let any student solo without seeing a spin at least once.

As for steep turns it tends to be that when on the low side it is a little scary. Do steep turn only to the high side, to the right, until you feel completely comfortable with them. By that time you should have no problem from to the left.

 

[beasly]

Go out and have a CFI spin you. Once spun a couple times you learn that this is the very worst thing that can happen to you from a stall and that it isn't to bad. It is very difficult to get into and very easy to recover from in a skyhawk that is. It may sound drastic and I am sure I will get flamed on this but the day I intro stalls is the day I intro a spin. I will not let any student solo without seeing a spin at least once.

As for steep turns it tends to be that when on the low side it is a little scary. Do steep turn only to the high side, to the right, until you feel completely comfortable with them. By that time you should have no problem from to the left.

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b.