Originally Posted by
rightseater
climbing 50' prior to doing a stall on a stage check doesn't help any. In fact, to me it would just show that the candidate does not know the PTS. The ATP PTS is minimum altitude loss. Not +/- 100' as many believe. The argument has come up at my airline that the minimum altitude loss for stall recovery is 0'!
I agree with the minimum alt. loss but zero sounds a little extreme. Correct me if I'm wrong but the aircraft has lost its lift and in return will descend.