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Just posting so you say hi to me
Love the A90 series, they are great.
Well hi! I’m glad you stopped by man. Did you learn anything from this episode? Or, what’s the biggest thing you’ve learned so far in the series?
Very cool man. I’m working on maneuvers for instrument rating and we’ve been doing heaps of these. Not so scary once you get the hang of it. Just have to remember to steer with rudder & avoid ailerons like you said.
I know man! You’ve been going nuts on your IFR training. And you’re totally right, you get use to them eventually. Stall is just not something a pilot wants to have, but, at some point they actually become fun to practice.
Have you ever done spin training?
Hi Chris,Thanks for the great info on the Rudder only control! I never knew that.I notice I stall frequently on final with a heavier aircraft like The A2A P-47,I just have to find the right combo of airspeed and flaps vs drag and weight,I just need practice,The RealAir Duke has stall buffet built in and the aircraft actually shakes which is pretty cool!! Great episode Chris!! Keep the pedal to the metal!!! Throttle on Bro!!!
Yeah, it’s great when people actually model in the buffer! The Piper Cub from A2A is actually the most realistic I’ve seen in FS based on flight dynamics alone. Pretty incredible!
Throttle On!
You mentioned it can occur at any airspeed and at any altitude. I think it is also very important to mention that it can occur in any attitude as well.
True.
Fantastic series by the way. I look forward to the rest!
Thanks!
Great series, I am loving it more than PMDG series as here everything starting from basics. I apparently got chance to do everything in real yesterday when I did my 1 hr intro flight lesson at KRYY. We did pre-flight, taxi, normal take-off, straight & level flight, turns, medium bank turns, turns with climb and descent, touch and go, go around and finally full stop landing. I had the controls most of the time during the flight and I was able to prove myself far ahead of the expectations of my instructor. He finally told me that it will be great fun to train me as I know theory as well as practical more than any average student. I have decided to go ahead for my PPL training. One problem I am facing while overlaying the real into flight sim is settings for yoke and rudders. For PMDG aircrafts it works great but when try with cessna 172 or any other default small planes it behaves too sensitively. I want to know what your setting out there as I have same equipment as you have. I have saitek yoke, throttle and rudder pedals with trackir pro4. It will be really helpful if I can practice some of the maneuvers on FSX.
Tanmay,
What a fun and exciting journey you are embarking on! Getting your PPL will hands down be one of the best experiences of your life. I will still never forget mine.
My examinar asked as we were taxiing in, ‘Alright, I have one last and very important question to ask you.’ I replied, ‘Oh, well ok, what is that?’ ‘How does it feel to be a private pilot?!’ I will never forget that day! What a great journey it has been.
About control sensitivity.
I find it best to send ALL my control inputs to a program called FSUIPC. Flight simulator is well known for handling the controls HORRIBLY in sim, therefore, I let FSUIPC bypass all the Microsoft stuff. This way you are able to set all the sensitivities you want.
In addition, I find the the ‘realism’ sliders within flight simulator are the most realistic when they are all the way to the left (easy). It’s just not that difficult to fly in real life.
Hope this helps! Throttle On!
Hey Chris,
I just wanted to stop by and say hi. Your videos are very entertaining and I cant wait for the next one to come out. I am working on my ppl and your videos are helping me out so much. I haven’t soloed yet but i’m getting there. Thanks so much!
-Caleb
Rock on, man! Let us know when you’re going to solo and we’ll have a celebration at AOA that day. Seriously.
Hiya Chris. Hope your preps for moving are going well.
Couple of questions. I don’t know why, but I had visions that there was “more to it” when there’s a stall. What I mean by that is, there seemed to be very little affects after the stall occurred. Is that because the recovery was so quick?
Also, you mentioned that “it’s all rudder”. But, in the video, you didn’t say much about how you were applying rudder in the power on or power off stall. I’m assuming you are applying opposite rudder just as you would on takeoff. The aircraft beings to roll slightly left, you applied right rudder, correct?
Also, just to clarify, as I think I understand this but it may be useful to others. The goal of the power on stall is to maintain altitude, not attitude. Correct? You pulled back the power smoothly and quickly, and used the elevators to maintain 2500 feet. In order to maintain that altitude, you raised the nose. As the angle of attack increased and the speed decreased, the speed progressively bled off faster.
At what point should you apply throttle? You appeared to apply throttle back at 55 knots. But, what I’m not clear about is as that speed bleeds off, when is power applied and why does it stall just as power is added?
Thanks
Ted
Sorry, “to maintain altitude, not PITCH”.
had to correct myself.