Commendable caution but I vote with the guys who say you owe it to yourself and your passengers to demonstrate your ability to recognize and recover from a stall. If a bad day comes along and you stall for any reason -- usually a bunch of little reasons piled up by chance at one moment -- you need to recover quickly and safely. And if, for some reason, a stall is unrecoverable in your airplane -- you shouldn't be flying it.
Do a good weight-and-balance, and then take it out one day with a fairly forward CG and give it a shot. Better still, go practice first in the airplane of a buddy who's done it already.
Charley Brown
I have made the decision prior to purchasing to avoid stalls
altogether in my 360. After reading the stall and stall spin accident
information, I just don't think it's worth the risk. On take-off, I stay
in ground effect for the half second it takes to make it into the green after
wheels up; on landing, I approach well above stall for my flap configuration,
and let the speed bleed off only a few feet above the threshold. During
normal flight, I don't even get near a typical slow flight speed. Too many
variables in a home built airplane with no precise envelope, a header tank
that is PROBABLY where I think it is, but could be off by 30 or 40 pounds if the
gauge is stuck; possible extra wait in the tail area (water retention after
heavy rain).
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