Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 19:35:12 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from mta5.snfc21.pbi.net ([206.13.28.241] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0b2) with ESMTP id 1293106 for lml@lancaironline.net; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:03:22 -0400 Received: from pacbell.net ([216.102.197.123]) by mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <0GXP004PQ8DNV9@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net> for lml@lancaironline.net; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 07:03:23 -0700 (PDT) X-Original-Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 06:59:51 -0700 From: dave morss Subject: stalls X-Original-To: lml@lancaironline.net X-Original-Message-id: <3D09F6D7.7070400@pacbell.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary_(ID_pqfChkeQt9gpfUtGIdi3+w)" X-Accept-Language: en-us User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 --Boundary_(ID_pqfChkeQt9gpfUtGIdi3+w) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Bill let me interject a thought. In the certified world your attitude would be correct. these are not certified planes. I try to stall on every first flight. I consider myself current and above average in skill,I have run an aerobatic school and am a current airshow pilot.In over ten years of testing lancairs I think Ive learned what to look for and how to determine if appropriate to try a stall. Ive been past vertical and well into a spin twice in normal flying lancairs that look and feel like the other 99% of lancairs. When testing a plane pilot performance is paramount, I always try and tell a pilot not to try anything he's not sure of. Apprehension is normal but worry will inhibit your performance. If a pilot is worried about stalls in a lancair it may not mean he needs stall instruction but that he recognizes the differences likely to occur in a lancair during construction and acknowledges that these are experimental aircraft. One of the two times I broke my back was doing stall testing in a prototype. Please don't use bravado to minimize the real risks involved in flight test. dave ps just my opinion I could be wrong --Boundary_(ID_pqfChkeQt9gpfUtGIdi3+w) Content-type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Bill let me interject a thought. In the certified world your attitude would be correct. these are not certified planes. I  try to stall on every first flight. I consider myself current and above average in skill,I have run an aerobatic school and am a current airshow pilot.In  over ten years of testing lancairs I think Ive learned what to look for and how to determine if appropriate to try a stall. Ive been past vertical and well into a spin twice in normal flying lancairs that look and feel like the other 99% of lancairs. When testing a plane pilot performance is paramount, I always try and tell a pilot not to try anything he's not sure of. Apprehension is normal but worry will inhibit your performance. If a pilot is worried about stalls in a lancair it may not mean he needs stall instruction but that he recognizes the differences likely to occur in a lancair during construction and acknowledges that these are experimental aircraft. One of the two times I broke my back was doing stall testing in a prototype. Please don't use bravado to minimize the real risks involved in flight test.
dave
ps just my opinion I could be wrong

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