No where in any FAR I am aware of does it say you cannot do stalls in the day, night, or even IMC given the right clearance. Now there may be some safety issues, local rental restrictions, and just plain common sense prohibitions on when to practice stalls, but that is another discussion.
They are not forbidden at night but certainly not recommended due to safety concerns.
I did stalls at night while under the hood during my instrument training. When the CFI-I can see the horizon clearly at night due to lights, natural and artificial, what is the concern?
I understand your point and it is certainly valid. The primary purpose during instrument training is to teach trust and dependence on instruments where required which is certainly the case in IMC. That can be done during the daylight just as easily.
I am not a CFI and so have no reference about teaching. But I do fly at night and it always seems to me to be easier to spot traffic at night thanks to position lights and I have noticed that there are a lot less planes to deal with at night.
That depends on where you are. The other night about 9PM, we were shooting approaches at San Marcos, twenty south of AUS and under radar. There was myself and another CFI while the student was under the hood. We looked plenty but there were two targets we could not find. One was one of our own planes and talking to us on the company unicom. They didn't see us so easily, either.
That doesn't mean you go and perform such maneuvers at night. If you want to do so, knock yourself out with a willing instructor. I will not do that with a student nor would I ever suggest another CFI do that. If you cannot recover safely and properly from under the hood in daytime, you're not going to do any better at night without the hood whether it's an imminent stall, buffeting or full break. It is not the time of day nor the amount of light that makes you a safe pilot.
Which is harder to see?
I know which one I can see better.....
Stalls under the hood are excellent training, as the CFII can be scanning for traffic and can recover from the spin if you completely botch the stall.
I have my students do both stalls and steep turns at night during training.
You're assuming the traffic in question has at least one light on!
After parsing that a bit, it sounds like you say you think it might be illegal. Can you tell us why you think that?
This is not a requirement for the instrument rating for flight instructors or pilots, and I can only see bad things coming of such an idea. I'll still with stall/spin prevention training/testing.
I'm just hedging. I don't believe it is illegal. The FAR has a lot of text and I don't pretend I know all of it.
I'n not disagreeing with you. If practicing stalls at night, the instructor should have the ability to regain control on the instruments- I don't know the percentage that actually have this knowledge.
To annoy Mayor Daley! You do them right over his house!
That's why I used the word "experienced." To me that means has performed the action enough times so that the successful outcome is never in doubt. The CFI part means he/she has the skill set to teach it as well as demonstrate it.
It would be and many should. However...although it would be nice if inexperienced CFIs realized that their certificates are just another license to learn (and that they may have a lot to learn), I am guessing that many do not take such an attitude.
