Unusual attitude recoveries

[BOOZENEWS]

How many of you have ever practiced unusual attitude recoveries in actual IFR with a safety pilot or CFII? I did it once and it was a big confidence builder and a lot of fun! Another time I practed slow flight in IMC and actually flew it at least as well as in VFR! Our GS was slower than I ride a bike at since we were at 45 KIAS into a 20-25 kt hdwd!

Someday I want to land on the salt flats in the Nevada desert and fly a sea plane. Always looking for fun things besides the normal routine of flying!

 

[atldc9]

When I first got hired hauling checks, my first training flight had us doing stalls, steep turns, and unusual attitude recoveries; all while holding over APE in actual IMC. Even had to deice the Baron to get us going. Realistic training at its finest.

That was a new one for me. I will always remeber the Check Airman saying ' ah- we're getting a bit of ice here, go ahead and recover from the stalls a little early.'

 

[midlifeflyer]

How many of you have ever practiced unusual attitude recoveries in actual IFR

Once, alone, unintentionally. :crying:

 

[pilotpat]

I just tried to stand up after my 3rd martini...does that count????



I did recover, though - Go Red Wings....oh, that was last night - still - Go Red Wings!!

 

[nosehair]

Once, alone, unintentionally. :crying:

Lots 'o times, with students, unintentionally
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[XTW]

I just tried to stand up after my 3rd martini...does that count????

I flew with a check airman years ago that gave me some advice in this department. He said, "Martinis are like womens breasts, one isn't enough, and three is too many!"

Probably some of the best advice given.:laugh:



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[pilotpat]

Good advice......and still Go Wings! LMAO...you should see me at Froggie's in Nassau - ouchy, talk about unusual attitude...

 

[eight8kcabpilot]

You should NEVER practice unusual attitude recovery in actual conditions. If your instructor wants you to, call him/her an idiot and tell them you will do it with a hood in VMC. I'm sure it was a confidence builder for you, but it is just not smart. It would be like prcaticing landing stalls while actually landing...DUMB.

 

[nosehair]

It would be like prcaticing landing stalls while actually landing...DUMB.

!...DOH!!..That's what I been tellin' my students for years!
"The purpose of practicing these landing stalls is to get real proficient at precisely flying the airplane into a stall at the landing touchdown, and the power recovery is like a go-around from flaring and stalling to high."...DOH!...what am i doing?
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[Kream926]

It would be like prcaticing landing stalls while actually landing...DUMB.

arnt we trying to stall the plane close to the ground during the flare?

 

[rfresh]

When Lockheed sold their L-1011 TriStar to British Airways many years ago, they had to certify the TriStar for deep stalls. So, the company test pilots took N1001 up (the first Tristar built and used exclusively for flight testing) and deep stalled it.

Satisfied with the handling, they invited the FAA aboard to fly some so they could get it certified. During one of the many FAA flown deep stalls, a wing dropped and the FAA pilot was unable to pick it up in time. The TriStar continued it's roll to the inverted attitude and the pilot just made a split-S out of it and pulled it out of the resulting dive.

He pulled over 3 g's on the airframe and lost about 15,000 feet (they started at 25,000 feet). The airplane was hangered for a month while they checked the entire airframe for any cracks, etc.

The FAA certified it but the FAA pilot never flew deep stalls in the TriStar again.

 

[Lead Sled]

I flew with a check airman years ago that gave me some advice in this department. He said, "Martinis are like womens breasts, one isn't enough, and three is too many!"

Probably some of the best advice given.:laugh:

Hmmm....
I was told that if you've seen one of them you've seen 'em both.

'Sled

 

[pilotpat]

Hmmm....
I was told that if you've seen one of them you've seen 'em both.

Hopefully.......if not - that would give me an unusual attitude :laugh: