Originally Posted by
snippercr
One thing I never really understood until I almost got my CFI (Certified Flight Instructor) was the difference between how an airplane produces "Lift" and how an airplane "climbs."
When I am really trying to make sure my students fully understand this fact I show a video of an F-16 in a vertical climb. I ask them what is the angel of attack of this jet vs us when we are cruising out to the practice area? If they say "The same" I go onto the next lesson. If they say "MUCH greater" than I know I have a little more work to do.
I would say you still don't understand something! Please go back to each and every one of your students and ask them to forgive you for teaching them wrong information!! The angle of attack is obviously not the same when in level cruising flight to a practice area and compared to flying vertical. Not in the same plane at least!!