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Old 02-13-2009 | 04:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Groundhog
Pilot education of tailplane icing is definitely worth the time.
A few years ago NASA came out with several videos discussing icing. They dedicated one video to tailplane icing.
Here's a link to the video on part135.com.
NASA Tailplane Icing

The video itself is very well done. It's a sobering 23 minutes.

Hog
They came and talked to us when I was a CFI at Western Michigan. It was a good presentation and they had some pretty crazy videos of tail plane stalls. The recovery for a tailplane stall was essentially the opposite of a wing stall.
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