Stalls

[Alin10123]

If you find yourself "diving stright down toward the earth" while doing stalls, your instructor is not teaching them properly. Come see me. Stalls should not be something that makes you queezy in the stomach or looking to cling to the aircraft. The should not be violent maneuvers either. Do not be afraid of the stall now or you will never be comfortable with them. If you feel totally comfortable in the aircraft but not while doing stalls, your insructor is doing you a huge injustice. I did a BFR with a student recently who was really uncomfortable when we got around to the part of doing stalls. He asked me "if we had to do them." By the time the BFR was over, he was asking me "if we could do a couple more." I had brought him to the point where he was supposed to be and felt good about doing it for him. I made him a better pilot who was more comfortable with a maneuver that is too often feared. Use a different instructor if the one you have makes you feel scared during these maneuvers. Thats the best advise I can give to you. Good luck with the rest of your rating. Be safe, and have a blast with it. I promise you will.

Hey you people, before you start bad-mouthing, condemning his instructor remember you are reading information from an 8 hour Student Pilot. Let's cut the CFI some slack here until there is some more information.

lol,
Did you two not read my post on the update that i posted today? It said that i did my power off stalls no problem, and i did my power on stalls this week. I had fun doing them in the end. The anxiety and wanting to cling to the aircraft was 100% in my head. Not the instructors fault. I actually did my first solo today too! whoohoo! I've got about 22 hours now.

thanks for everyone's suggestions. What we did was take it slow just like everyone recommended. One to practice what to do to recover but not actually stalling. One time until right before it breaks. Then the final time was doing the actual stall. Then the 4th time was concentrating on controlling the full stall and let it break a little longer while under control before recovery, just to get an idea of spin awareness.

Like i said above, after doing the stalls, i've got 100% more confidence in the handling of the aircraft.

 

[WMUchickenhawk]

My first stall, I reached forward and yanked back on the yoke when the plane nosed over. I nearly spun it. Since then I've begun to enjoy them. Just wait till you do a cross-control stall. Thats a wierd feeling. Anyways, don't worry about the feeling. You'll do enough that it will go away.

 

[Alin10123]

My first stall, I reached forward and yanked back on the yoke when the plane nosed over. I nearly spun it. Since then I've begun to enjoy them. Just wait till you do a cross-control stall. Thats a wierd feeling. Anyways, don't worry about the feeling. You'll do enough that it will go away.

Eeer... isn't that what you're not supposed to do? When it stalls and you yank it back after the stall actually breaks, wont that put the aircraft into a secondary stall?

 

[WMUchickenhawk]

Eeer... isn't that what you're not supposed to do? When it stalls and you yank it back after the stall actually breaks, wont that put the aircraft into a secondary stall?

yup, but I wasnt ready for it. I had no idea it could be so abrupt. So instinct took over, and I pulled back.