Thread: Stalls at Night
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Old 04-21-2009, 09:00 PM
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Originally Posted by withthatsaid182 View Post
Long story short...

I had a student who was working on the instrument with me...they said they had not flown night in over a year...I said okay fine, tonight's lesson will be a review of basic manuvers at night...stalls, slow flight, steep turns, and then we'll work on some instrument stuff...the student has a fit and refuses to fly because "doing stalls at night is dangerous". I've been instructing for about 2.5 years and have always done stalls at night with students...

I will continue to teach stalls at night...

What is your opinion?
Remind the student that the aircraft's critical angle of attack do not change based on time of day so its a non issue I wonder what would happen if I asked your student to go up with me during the night in a Citabria to do some spins, immelman and inside loops and such either way sounds like a confidence issue with that said you would be amazed at how many people who have never had any spin training
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