Turning Stall

Lesson Objective

Regulatory Requirement

• §61.87(i)(14)
• Private Pilot Practical Test Standard IX-B

Content

• hazards at low altitude
• hazard of stalls in the pattern
• use of spoilers during a stall, stall speed as related to spoiler deployment
• appropriate recovery from a turning stall.

Completion Standards

• A turning stall and appropriate recovery
• A turning stall with air brakes open, and appropriate recovery.

• relationship of the ease of a stall to the angle of bank

Prerequisite Study

• Glider Flying Handbook, pages 3-14, 7-26, 7-27, 3-11, 3-14
• Learning to Fly Gliders, pages 26 and 27

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