CFI Info – Fresh Air and Stalls
Forty years ago, when I was a fearful student pilot, my instructor, Jim, had a great teaching technique. It added fresh air to the stuffy cockpit and a new approach to demonstrating and recovering from power-off stalls. Many pilots tolerate stalls with anxiety, perspiration, eyes closed and a face set for impending death. Often the pilot does not breathe until the stall is complete; possibly thinking that might somehow prohibit losing control. Stalls are too often misunderstood and associated with unmanageable danger in the minds of most students. And rightly so….. because stalls are associated with a number one cause