Full stalls while turning

[SSMOWS6]

Can someone explain to me what these are and how they are done. Im doing them today and I don't know what to expect. I have the feeling the plane is going to get into a spin.

 

[Goose Egg]

Try them out. See what happens when you stall in a turn when you are coordinated and when you are not.

-Goose

 

[SSMOWS6]

Oh yeah im not thinking this morning. Just keep it coordinated.

 

[Goose Egg]

Yeah, that ought to do the trick. You'll find that a stall in a coordinated turn is just like one that is straight ahead. They are pretty manageable. And it just goes to show how important it is to maintain coordination.

-Goose

 

[labbats]

If you're in a Cessna, it might spin.

If you're in a Warrior or Archer. It won't. Unless you're doing a cross-controlled power-on stall. Which is just asking for it anyway.

 

[nosehair]

If you're in a Cessna, it might spin.

Regardless of the airplane type, it will not spin, IF (big if) it is COORDINATED.

And that is the reason EVERYONE should practice, practice, practice stalls in turns. It is required in the PTS, you know. It seems to be the practice of examiners to not do stalls in turns on checkrides, or at least to not fail applicants because they are uncoordinated. Unless it actually does begin to enter into an incipient spin.

Coordinated climbing turns stalls is one of the best ways to gain good coordination. Try a right climbing turn stall and focus on keeping a constant bank angle of 20 degrees with the aileron, and keeping the ball centered with the rudder. You will see that you have to hold a significant amount of right rudder and left aileron to keep the bank angle constant and the ball centered.

And you will be in total control when it stalls. And you will feel much more confident in you and your machine.

 

[SSMOWS6]

Pfft that was easy! No problem, just like normal stalls but with a 30 degree bank.

 

[Kream926]

stalled a bit faster didnt she?

 

[SSMOWS6]

Yeah, it was like "one thousand, two thousand, three thousand.. pitch up... EEEEEEEEE turn" and like a second later she stalled.

 

[Lead Sled]

Can someone explain to me what these are and how they are done. Im doing them today and I don't know what to expect. I have the feeling the plane is going to get into a spin.

I don't want to stiffle the discussion, but this is really the type of question that you ought to be asking your CFI. This forum is a good source of certain types of information, but probably not the best source for other types. If your instructor isn't doing his/her job or if you don't allow them to do it then all of the advice you get here is going to solve the underlying problem. If your instructor is competitent then just ask him. If you're having second thoughts about your CFI then stop your training, find another CFI, then proceed. One thing for certain, being second guessed by a bunch of "experts" on an aviation forum would be enough to irritate almost any quality CFI.

'Sled