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kontextmaschine:

Thinking about the way airplanes had been a thing for a while before anyone figured out how to recover from a stall

(You drop the nose and put throttle in, which I could see being counterintuitive, it’s kinda like recovering a skid)

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When I was taking flying lessons at like age 13 it was with whoever from the charter company was on duty at the time, so they sometimes misjudged my progress

I kept being taught slow flight over and over, and then one guy overcorrected and decided to teach me stalls

The Cessna 150/152 is a popular training aircraft cause it’s so hard to render unstable, at that age I wasn’t strong enough to pull the yoke back enough to stall it so he said he’d do it

He somehow did it wrong (which rudder pedal you stomp on varies from plane model to model, that was probably it) and we ended up in a tailspin pointing straight down for like 5 seconds

Another part of why the 150/152 is such a popular training aircraft is that an experienced instructor can recover from any instability but whoo boy.

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