>>Show of hands.

How many of those who continue to minimize the importance of AOA indicators and stall avoidance and maximize the importance of stall training have actually read the article?

  http://www.avweb.com/articles/spinningyarn/

And if you've read it, would you mind sharing with the rest of us why you seem to discount the article or at least disagree with the author's conclusions?>>>>


Paul,

I read the article. I disagree with the author's conclusions because as he states-- many of the victims stalled the aircraft while doing a low altitude "shine your ass" maneuver. He doesn't report the numbers of pilots who successfully recovered from a stall or spin situtation-- just the ones who didn't. In other words -- the statistics were biased to favor a point of view. I also disagree with many of the writers in this forum who think stall/spin training is unecessary because their opinions are based on rumor, innuendo and inexperience. I have given thousands of hours of flight instruction and hundreds of checkrides.

After looking at the members pages on the LML website I have concluded that we have two kinds of pilots here in the forum. Professionals and amateurs.  The average pilot in this forum has a private certificate with a few hundred hours total time-- hardly a seasoned professional pilot. Many of the members listed by Marvin are student pilots. On the other hand we have a group of professional pilots with ATP's, CFI's, various advanced ratings and designations and thousands of hours of experience each. So a better question would be-- why do the private pilots in the group with a few hundred hours of experience think they know more about aviation than the professional pilots in the group?


Jeff Edwards
experience counts