FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR REACTS to STUDENT Pilot Accidentally Spinning a Cessna During Stall Practice

eight whiskey traffic 2 o'clock 8 miles westbound I'm Jason Miller, a full-time professional

flight

instructor

on the Finer Points channel. You can join me as I bring you tips and tricks I've learned over 20 years on the

flight

line. Hello aviators and welcome back to the finer points of this video. I'm going to react to a

student

pilot

who inadvertently spins while practicing

stall

power. I'm going to show you how this happened, how to avoid it and then I'll give you some tips and tricks that you can work on with your finance boss to make sure this never happens to you and this is very important, not only because the loss of control is the leading cause of fatal airline accidents, but because there are so many

student

s I know or

pilot

s I know are uncomfortable with

stall

power and you really don't have to be if you know what to do, so let's take a look and see what happens and We will go deeper.

It's a little hard to see, but what we have. Here's a student pilot practicing stall power in a Cessna 152. The cameras are mounted low and far back, so it's hard to see, so I'll help narrate. Now in this first attempt you can see that he is using aileron to prevent the plane from turning to the right when the stall breaks, the plane pitches hard to the right but does not turn and that is because the engine, the left engine pull has saved it, okay, let's review how turns occur, okay, so that a turn occurs. you have to have a stall and a yaw moment, the plane has to be yaw if you don't have a saw or if you don't have a yaw you can't turn the plane, so what will happen to the student pilots in power? in stall positions is when they lean up, the nose is very, very high, so you lose all your references, you are like looking up at this blue sky, you don't know where to look and the engine is pulling you to the left, like this that you have to maintain right rudder and just the right amount of right rudder to prevent that yaw from occurring, because if you don't do so when the stall occurs, the airplane will veer hard toward the direction in which it was yawing, now that is called incipient phase.

There's still a chance to recover from here, but if you use aileron to try to lift this low wing, you actually increase the drag of that wing and can put the airplane into a deeper turn, which is when you have a lower wing. stagnant than the other. The other wing and the wing that is less drafty is flying in a helical trajectory with a very low attitude, low airspeed and a large sink rate, okay, so that is a spin, spin recovery is taking out the power from there correctly. neutralize your ailerons so you don't have any drag and use the rudder to stop the forward rotation elevator to break the stall and then recover from that dive okay so when you're doing the stalls it's really important that you can see the yaw , especially in stalls, because that is when the engine power pushes you to the left, so you must have a visual reference and that is why we teach the Lindbergh reference, which is the gold reference in all airplanes to determine the pitching Yaw and roll when you can't see the horizon in front of the plane.

Now here we're looking at a Cessna 152, so you know, if the camera was mounted higher, you'd see what I'm saying, but if this student was leaning back in his seat, he could probably see the horizon here somewhere along from the side window, just forward into the side window. You don't have a good visual reference, so let's see what happens. Okay, it's got a pretty good twist. recovery technique, but let's back up a little. I want to show you that right here, when the airplane pitches to the left, stop it right here, if you were to turn off the power, put the rudder in place of the aileron and release the yoke so the airplane can get out of that stall, it would just get out of this condition. into a right turn, but instead you go for the big aileron input, continue to hold the pro turn inputs, and the airplane goes into a two-turn turn, so let's talk about if you're a student, how you can deal with this and if you are an

instructor

here are some tips on how you can deal with your students this is how I teach spin training.

I mean, the first thing is that I demonstrate a fully developed turn like us. watch this video and I'll do it in an aerobatic plane or I'll send my students to an aerobatics instructor if you're a student and your finance boss doesn't want to do the flips with you, that's okay, it's not everyone's cup of tea. of tea, but look for a cfi for a lesson or two that will take you and show you a full circle. Now we're not doing aerobatic training so you don't have to be very good at this, I mean if you're a cfi just have him show it to his student once and then have him follow the recovery with the controls the second time.

The main thing we're trying to teach here is how to prevent this from happening, so after we do the demo, that's when we roll up our sleeves and go to work and I go back to the training aircraft that we're working on, whether it's a 152 or a 172. , and I'll start by stalling, pretending I forgot what the rudder is and By the way, the students are flying this, so I say that when I do it, I do it with my students, they will put their feet flat on the floor, they will lift the nose of the plane and they will add all the power and we all know what I just said what the plane is going through the nose is yawning to the left yawning to the left yawning to the left and when it breaks it will make an incipient turn with the wing left very low and I want my students to identify in the Lindbergh reference what is happening there is yawning, is yawning, is yawning, there is the pause and then I want them to stop turning, so experience the incipient turn, but don't let it becomes that two turn spin, that's the spin rate, we add power, we launch, oh boy. we forgot to use the rudder, okay, there goes the brake and the roll power comes out, the rudder stops, the rotation, the elevator breaks the stall, the elevator returns to space and we exit the dive, once my students can do it, we try to tighten it.

We go up one more level and look very carefully at the Lindbergh reference. Sometimes we get a dry erase marker to put a little mark there so we can more easily see the yaw effect in that area and then we test some power on the stalls where I am. Now I know that they are looking in the right place and that they can use the right amount of rudder to keep the airplane from entering any type of incipient or fully developed spin, so that's what I recommend and that's how I would teach my students. If you are a student, make sure you get the proper training by asking your operations manager to do it with you or send you to an aerobatics instructor for a lesson or two.

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