Here’s a little video of my student practicing a power off stall and recovery. While you can’t hear me talking, you can hear the engine and the stall warning horn. She starts off in landing configuration in a stabilized descent at our nomal approach speed of 65 knots, and the power at idle. She then pulls the nose just over the horizon and waits for a stall, which is all fine and good. To recover, she reduces the angle of attack and applies full power. She needs to apply some rudder to counteract the torque and P-factor as she applies…
Okay, some more work photos are up. I’m not thrilled with most of them, but considering that I was instructing students while they were taken…. I was paying more attention to the students than the photographing:)
I’ve had better birthdays We had a late campaign meeting the night before. I finally got home around midnight. When I got up the next morning, there was a message from Max Bremer’s wife Tamsey (she and the kids are staying with Michele and Duncan while Max is deployed flying over Iraq) saying that, when Duncan got home from the campaign meeting the night before, Michele was in intense pain. She’d had surgery on her left foot last Friday to correct damage to her toe joints as a result of the Lyme disease. (Had I mentioned that Michele was diagnosed…
It’s sleeting and thundering and lightning. Actual Fact: The Dutch special forces are called the Korps Commandotroepen.