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Old 04-13-2009 | 06:50 AM
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Originally Posted by ryan1234
For example the FAA teaches about how bad it is to stall in a turn or accelerated stalls..... they're really not that bad, especially depending on the structural strength/limits.
I think they teach them because so many people end up getting into them while in the traffic pattern which makes them unrecoverable.

The first lesson I had in an airplane was a turn to stall on final approach ... at altitude. Will never forget what happened after that wing stalled.
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