Lobo does not encourage stall practice in IV series aircraft due the number of fatal accidents associated with stall training and testing in a IV series, including a number of test pilots and flight instructors.
Jeff
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Because nobody wants to die alone??
If you are not competent to practice
stalls solo in your Lancair, you probably shouldn’t be flying it solo.
From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Colyn Case
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013
2:04 PM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] Re: stalls
aerodynamically,
I don't know what a Lancair has in common with a Zlin. One
thing it doesn't have is excess control authority. I'm all in favor of
stall recognition training but I wouldn't advocate everyone going out in their
Lancair's solo and doing it....
On
Jan 2, 2013, at 9:45 AM, Andres Katz wrote:
If
you never stall the airplane when it happens you won't be able to recognize
what is doing and how to react. Learning what your airplane does when it stalls
and recovering from it is essential to safe flight. In flying Acro we stall the
airplane multiple times, at low altitude and in front of ungrateful critical
sobs that will laugh at you when you screw up but will give you good tips about
recovering from it. Every airplane stalls differently, right wing drop, left
wing drop, bucking etc. learning what the airplane does pre stall is the most
important. My ZLIN 50 is so nice it begins to buckle and bitch at me and tells
me what I need to do (lower the stick) before it kills me. I advise you to get
a good instructor and go to 10,000 feet and spend the best 2 hrs of your life
stalling your airplane and getting to know her. It's
Ike
making love to your wife and knowing when she is happy.....
My
old savvy instructor when checking me out in single seat airplanes always told
me the same, go out to a safe altitude, stall the airplane, learn when it does
it look at the speed when it happens, add 10 knots and come and land, it
has never failed to get me down safely ie yak55, Jungmeister, ZLIN, chipmunk
etc.
My
few cents worth of it. You will live longer.
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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).
From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Ed Gray
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013
9:43 PM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] stalls
Colyn,
As I said, AVOID STEEP TURNS IN THE PATTERN. If you are flying low under
the hood, I hope you have a well qualified safety pilot
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