At 02:23 PM 6/2/99 -0400, Jerry wrote: >airplane, and you're also history. Can you really fly at very close to stall, >scared out of your wits, making low altitude turns that you never tried before? >Most can't, and history proves it. >Jerry Eichenberger
This is why I sort of hate to see all this discussion on this.
I don't like students thinking too much about maybe trying it,
after I've gotten them all convinced that you don't do it unless
you've climbed up to pattern altitude.
I tell them that as long as they glide down and don't stall or
hit anything big like a car or a tree trunk, they'll be OK
even if they wreck the airplane. I kid them too, telling them
that the airplane is insured so if they damage it, try to total
it so we can get a new airplane.
The last thing I want them to worry about is wrecking the
airplane. I don't want them stalling or hitting power lines
trying to land on a road when there's a field nearby.
Of course, they fly Cessnas, where they can easily get out if they
nose it over in a field.
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