Stalls at Night
04-23-2009, 03:04 PM
#21
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My school prohibits stalls at night. It is probably because of our location over mountainous terrain and poor references to the ground/horizon.
If you can easily identify the horizon with visual references, there shouldn't be a problem at an appropriate altitude.
I agree, the student seems to have a bad experience in the past.
If you can easily identify the horizon with visual references, there shouldn't be a problem at an appropriate altitude.
I agree, the student seems to have a bad experience in the past.
04-24-2009, 03:56 AM
#22
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Originally Posted by withthatsaid182
Anyways the student met with me yesterday and told me the 101 reasons why stalls are dangerous and all the people she knows that said she wouldn't do them. I told her my reasoning which is similar to everyone's here. That was that, she didn't like it and actually left. If she comes around again, it'll be interesting to see.
04-24-2009, 04:19 PM
#23
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Originally Posted by withthatsaid182
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?
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?
enjoy getting/building the extra flight time out of that student.
duhhhhh
edit just read she left you. too bad. that student had flight time written all over her with her level of education.
04-27-2009, 01:18 PM
#24
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Originally Posted by Pilotpip
We should only practice stalls during the day because they only occur during daylight hours, sometimes during civil twilight. Stalls never happen at night.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, right.
This is due to the fact that airplanes are afraid to stall at night, because Chuck Norris lurks behind moonlight.
04-27-2009, 01:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Convairator
This is due to the fact that airplanes are afraid to stall at night, because Chuck Norris lurks behind moonlight.
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