>I side with Bill and others:  STALL TRAINING AND STALL AWARENESS TRAINING AND PRACTICE ARE ESSENTIAL TO YOUR >FLIGHT SKILLS. 

 

Why are they so necessary?  I was speaking with a friend of mine and he asked the same question.  I at first thought it odd that he would question it.  Then I remembered my last flight review where my instructor had me do a bunch of slow flight work.  It was great fun and everything, but I distinctly remember noticing that I never used such skills.

 

Why are you flying your airplanes so slow as to require this kind of skill?  Isn’t that like practicing driving your car on the edge of a cliff in case you need to avoid going over a cliff one day?  Just don’t get that close.  Don’t fly that slow, unless you’re flaring just before you reach your touch down point, then what do you have to worry about?

 

I think we (myself included) get so fixated on something dumb someone did that we miss the real point in avoiding the same mistake.

 

If a 90 or 100 knot approach speed gives you the willies, then get into a 172 or an archer for crying out loud

 

Kevin