wrote: > =20 > =20 > Is it just me or does anyone else find it just a bit disturbing that the L= ancairs have such "fearsome" stall characteristics ? > =20 > Wolfgang > =20 > Many swept wing aircraft and early high performance aircraft with high wi= ng loadings were flown with the admonition "Never stall this airplane." It i= s not something new. =20 > =20 > My instructor who was a national aerobatic champion, flew a Lancair IV aro= und the world and drives Airbus products said words to the effect "One shoul= d never be surprised when an aircraft stalls, benign behavior or otherwise. I= t means you have not been paying attention. With this aircraft and many oth= ers, particularly jet aircraft, you need to always pay attention to airspeed= ." > =20 > Pay attention to airspeed and stalls are not an issue. > =20 > Fred Moreno --Apple-Mail-1--516628153 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

My 2 cents. #1. Every airplane stalls and #2 if you are not minding the store, it may spin. My experience teaching pilots is that not every single pilot knows how to recover from #1 and fewer from #2. With the advance of EFIS and autopilot technology-- many are just rated passengers.

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On Jun 19, 2011, at 5:30 AM, "Frederick Moreno" <frederickmoreno@bigpond.com> wrote:

Is it just me or does anyone else find it just a bit disturbing that the Lancairs have such "fearsome" stall characteristics ?

Wolfgang

Many swept wing aircraft and early high performance aircraft with high wing loadings were flown with the admonition "Never stall this airplane." It is not something new.

My instructor who was a national aerobatic champion, flew a Lancair IV around the world and drives Airbus products said words to the effect "One should never be surprised when an aircraft stalls, benign behavior or otherwise. It means you have not been paying attention. With this aircraft and many others, particularly jet aircraft, you need to always pay attention to airspeed."

Pay attention to airspeed and stalls are not an issue.

Fred Moreno

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