What would you do?

Holocene said:
Pull back on the controls to maintain altitude.
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Did you leave out the sarcasm tag? If you are serious you just killed yourself.

I teach a lengthly lesson with every student of mine on accelerated stalls. Then demonstrate at altitude overshooting a road simulating final, go to idle, put in 45 degrees of bank, hold altitude to the horn/buffet. Usually after I do this I dont have to say "no more than 30 in the pattern" anymore.
 
wjmiller3 said:
Did you leave out the sarcasm tag? If you are serious you just killed yourself.
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:yeahthat:Pull up means go slower....not go up. If you have not already done so, buy and read Wolfgang Langeweische's book Stick and Rudder.
 
ppragman said:
Scary story with that, a friend of mine's dad was a DPE for a while, and well, here's the story:

The guy is giving an instrument checkride and is nearly done, when the applicant is shooting an ILS to a full stop. She crosses the inner marker and looks over at him "I want to die," she says, and shoves the nose forward. The DPE says "You do but I don't, and karate chops a couple times in the neck and pulls out about 50' AGL. Apparently, at this point he says, "take me back," and she flies him back and he takes the landing. Funny, but really spooky.
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Did she pass....?
 
Holocene said:
ah, yes. Just to clarify, the appropariate thing to do is to reduce power and increase the bank angle to shorten the turn radius back onto the final approach course...;)
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I'm pretty sure I'm getting the joke, but humor me for a second.

If you do this, you'll still kill yourself. Level the wings, lower the nose a tad, go full power and go around. You may or may not be joking, at this point it doesn't matter and you don't want to give people the wrong impression here or reinforce some students bad ideas either. I've had people do this, and the next lesson suddenly becomes spin training.
 
jtrain609 said:
I'm pretty sure I'm getting the joke, but humor me for a second.

If you do this, you'll still kill yourself. Level the wings, lower the nose a tad, go full power and go around. You may or may not be joking, at this point it doesn't matter and you don't want to give people the wrong impression here or reinforce some students bad ideas either. I've had people do this, and the next lesson suddenly becomes spin training.
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Understood. My instructor told a story about some kid pulling the mixture all the way back abeam the numbers; mistaking it for the carb heat. That will wake you up.
 
Holocene said:
Understood. My instructor told a story about some kid pulling the mixture all the way back abeam the numbers; mistaking it for the carb heat. That will wake you up.
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LOL, on my second flight ever I did the same thing....Seatbelts on, fuel selector both, mixture full rich(and I pulled the mixture to cutoff). Talk about pucker factor....
 
Holocene said:
Understood. My instructor told a story about some kid pulling the mixture all the way back abeam the numbers; mistaking it for the carb heat. That will wake you up.
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HA! I'd believe it.

I'll tell ya, in my opinion, flight instructing gets VERY real the first time you have a student cross control on base to final. You talk with them about cross controlled stalls, you do stalls, you tell them why you don't want to cross control on base to final and then, eventually, it seems every student does it. I always had a personal rule, that as soon as a student pulled that stunt once I'd explain to them why they didn't want to do it, and on the second time we headed directly to the practice field to do spins.

I never had a student cross control on base to final after doing a spin lesson with them, but I'll tell you having to take the airplane from a student at 400' and dropping the nose so you don't stall/spin will put a lot of things in life into perspective for you :)
 
Holocene said:
Understood. My instructor told a story about some kid pulling the mixture all the way back abeam the numbers; mistaking it for the carb heat. That will wake you up.
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I call that "the captains special". I don't know what it is but I've flown with five airline captains who wanted to get checked out in our planes and three of them have pulled the mixture out instead of the throttle. :drool: Expect it from everybody.

I like little airplanes, I hope I never take that long of a break from them.
 
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