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Old 05-07-2009 | 05:59 PM
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While I agree we, as professional aviators, should never allow an aircraft to reach the pusher. The fact of the matter is it has happened, and will continue to do so. Accidents happen/ mistakes are made regularly....it's our job to attempt to mitigate them through education and practice.

However, I contest training to a pusher will serve little usefulness at 1500 AGL. There is a discussion about this very subject taking place on another popular aviation board. Should an aircraft enter into a fully developed stall while on an approach, it would be very useful to have training that forces a pilot to accept the pusher driving the nose towards an already very near tera-firma. Human nature would resist driving an aircraft's nose toward the ground when you're already at a very low AGL..... So you see, by reacting to human nature, a pilot in this situation could deepen a stall to the point where recovery would be impossible, or nearly so. Add to that, night IMC where there are few visual cues to assist in recovery, coupled with a variety of somatogravic illusions as you increase thrust/ torque.....you could wind up in a very, very troubling attitude. As such, I would say training to a pusher event at low altitudes (such as approach configuration stalls) would serve a very useful purpose.

FYI, I'm not trying to be confrontational here......just throwing out some food-for-thought.
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