Thread: Stalls at Night
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Old 04-22-2009, 05:37 AM
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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?
During flight training with a freight company, we did all the maneuvers in the middle of the night, and in IMC (slow flight, stalls, steep turns, engine failures, what have you). Continue to teach those things at night. If anything, it will only make whoever is in the plane that much better.

*all instrument work should be done at night, in my opinion.
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