Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #14168
From: Hamid Wasti <hwasti@starband.net>
Sender: Marvin Kaye <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [LML] stall/spin ad nauseum
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 19:20:18 -0400
To: <lml>
IIP wrote:

It is equally incredible to me that anyone would consider regularly
operating an automobile without a thorough familiarity with the high
speed oversteer/understeer skid characteristics on uneven country roads
in the rain at night. With no headlights. And bad shocks.

For those of us who live in the mountains, at the end of a steep road in a part of the country that is prone to snow and ice and much less prone to being plowed, you bet that we practice dealing with an ice induced skid and other similar problems.  That will be a ridiculous thing to do for someone living in southern Florida.

If you operate your airplane in a way that you never get close to stall and can guarantee that you will never inadvertently get close to stall (there are no mountains in FL), then you do not need to practice stalls. But if you plan to do takeoffs and landings in your airplane, you will be operating the airplane close to its performance envelope and need to know how it behaves in that regime.

Your analogy is flawed because most of us do not operate our cars close to their performance envelope.  Those of us that do, need to need to practice what happens in that regime.

Hamid

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