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Re:My Letter to the Editor of New York Times Magazine by FabHK on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:33PM (#21250701)
> ?? Most aircraft will do this. Even docile trainers.

That might be, but the video doesn't demonstrate it - the pilot flying pulls the elevator back quite a bit to induce the stall after he puts in full power.

Re:My Letter to the Editor of New York Times Magazine by mlyle on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:40PM (#21250782)
I agree it's a poor demonstration-- he helps it the last bit of the way to the stall. But look at how much it pitches first...

Unfortunately there's two videos I found of the trim stall demonstration on youtube-- this one which shows most of it with a full cockpit view, and one which I think is a bit better technically but has the camera shaking everywhere.

See FAA AFM 4-12 for official training materials. https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/a...

Re:My Letter to the Editor of New York Times Magazine by mlyle on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:49PM (#21250885)
Here is a better demonstration:

https://youtu.be/6RtVdmsx4qU?t=71

The plane goes way above the normal climb attitude. He doesn't take it to the full stall, but has to push heavily on the control column to arrest it-- he never pulls.

(Really, it's pretty astounding how hard you have to push, and how high the nose rises anyways-- even if you weren't fully trimmed for glide, and even in mild-handling airplanes... I tend to fully trim for whatever flight condition I'm in, --except glide-- and then am holding light backpressure just to control this).