Stalls in a Piper Archer II

[aggie06]

I trained in a 150 with a very experienced instructor. His theory seemed to be to tell me what to do without demonstrating things and see if I could do it myself. Somehow I knew to keep the ball centered with rudder, but didn't really understand why. After our first couple power on stalls, he tells me to stall it without rudder to see what happens. I didn't think to ask what would happen, though. Approaching stall, he is yelling at me to keep my feet off the rudder. When it broke, it turned inverted and I panicked. He took the plane before we really got into a fully developed spin, but it sure got my attention. Now I know what happens when you don't use any rudder.

I'm still not a fan of stalls, but I'm always careful to keep the ball in the center.

 

[denverpilot]

There is a reason as an instructor I can sit with my hands folded all the time with no concern. The reason is because my feet are always on a hair trigger. Rudder is a big deal.

Hey. I remember some guy who looks a lot like you saying, "did you feel me pushing against you when you stupidly used all that bottom rudder?" Haha.

And you know, but for the folks here, no, bottom rudder is not a habit of mine, just a stupid pilot trick when we were high and really really fast and my brain decided to push the wrong pedal during the base to final turn. Classic screwup.

I still have no damn idea why I did that. I'm just glad your brain was working harder than mine was at that particular moment.

 

[jesse]

Hey. I remember some guy who looks a lot like you saying, "did you feel me pushing against you when you stupidly used all that bottom rudder?" Haha.

And you know, but for the folks here, no, bottom rudder is not a habit of mine, just a stupid pilot trick when we were high and really really fast and my brain decided to push the wrong pedal during the base to final turn. Classic screwup.

I still have no damn idea why I did that. I'm just glad your brain was working harder than mine was at that particular moment.

Step on the sky. Say that about a hundred times and you won't do it again maybe I should make students write it 500 times on a whiteboard, lol.