WestHouston
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- May 3, 2006
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I'm in a 152 with a student doing stalls. I have them do a power-off stall, dirty, and the plane drops the left wing an starts to roll into a spin to the left. I take the controls and recover. I tell the student "how the hell do you get into a spin from a power off stall?" So I take the controls to demonstrate the proper technique. IT HAPPENS AGAIN! Spin to the left, with 30 degrees flaps. When I was approaching stall, the warning horn was going off, but no buffet no shudder, and no sudden drop in the nose.
I decided to investigate. I put it in slow flight and backed off the power just enough to teeter on the verge of a stall, as it stalls all that happens is an EXTREMELY slow pitch-forward moment, like in a rocking chair, and then the bottom drops out and it spins.
Has anyone experienced anything like this in a C152 before? I thought maybe we had a far aft CG, but the W&B is good, even forward a bit as the student I was with is a short female with the seat all the way forward and sitting on two pads.
I'd like to find out why this is happening. I don't want any of my pre-private students to fly the aircraft until I do. Thanks!
I decided to investigate. I put it in slow flight and backed off the power just enough to teeter on the verge of a stall, as it stalls all that happens is an EXTREMELY slow pitch-forward moment, like in a rocking chair, and then the bottom drops out and it spins.
Has anyone experienced anything like this in a C152 before? I thought maybe we had a far aft CG, but the W&B is good, even forward a bit as the student I was with is a short female with the seat all the way forward and sitting on two pads.
I'd like to find out why this is happening. I don't want any of my pre-private students to fly the aircraft until I do. Thanks!