Tomorrow I have another flight lesson, and we will be going over more basics, and hopefully doing power-off stalls for the last time. I have to get it perfect. In our pre-flight briefing, I will need to do some chair flying, which is not as fun as it sounds. It does involve sitting in a chair, but there’s no flying involved in chair flying. It is rather a visualization technique. When I’m chair flying with my instructor it’s my job to tell the instructor what I’ve learned and step-by-step, how I will do certain maneuvers. Tomorrow, my instructor will ask me to walk him through the power-off approach to landing stall, and I will be able to recite, with my eyes closed, these 11 steps:
- Select a minimum entry altitude of 2,000 feet
- Verify the area is clear of traffic by executing shallow turns
- Reduce throttle to 1,700 RPM
- Apply backpressure to maintain level flight
- Verify airspeed is 110 KIAS for 10 degrees of flaps and 85 KIAS for 20 and 30 degrees of flaps
- Select full down-wing flaps in 10 degree increments
- Reduce throttle to idle
- Reduce airspeed to 65 KIAS
- Initiate a 500 feet-per-minute descen
- Level the aircraft by pitching to a landing attitude
- Recognize and announce the onset of the stall.
And for further reinforcement, I created a video to aid in memorization. I am not going to go to bed until I can recite and explain this thoroughly.
