Overcoming The Fear of Stalls

Who has ever had a fear of stalls? I sure did! In this video we’ll talk about why we practice stalls and how to overcome any fears.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:20 Who is fearful of stalls?
00:45 Overcoming Fear of Stalls
01:22 80% Power Stall
03:00 Full Power Stall
04:15 Closing Remarks

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[carlott]

I had a fear of stalls at the beginning of private. just passed commercial and started cfi and stalls in the right seat are different but that fear is long gone

[mwash]

I had a major fear of stalls 20 years ago. My instructor took me up and made me do spins, stalls weren’t so bad after that.

[rojinareign]

It is so comforting to know that I am not the only one hating them lol😅

[frankdaniels]

Another person afraid of stalls! Spent a lot of time two days ago working on my departure stalls before my checkride soon!

[greathornedowl]

When the engine stalls my heart stalls. I know it is something we need to practice, and glad when I am done, but anxiety at max. Thanks again for an informative/informational video.

[markfacer]

The Private Pilot ACS states the following regarding Power-On Stalls: "Set power (as assigned by the evaluator) to no less than 65 percent available power) (PA.VII.C.S.4). This means we may be asked to use full power, but the DPE may allow a lower power setting (ask your DPE). We need to be able to perform the maneuver both ways.
Also, I recommend teaching the "Falling Leaf" maneuver before Stalls. This really shows the importance of coordination as well as serving as a more gentle introduction to Stalls.

[XU]

Used to be terrified of these, then got used to it eventually. Just do more and more.

Instrument checkride coming up soon, time to binge watch MZero instrument videos haha!

[JustSayNO]

I'm an instrument trainee who's been a private pilot for 20+ years. This is why I despise stalls. From a flight school's student manual:

Power On Stall

Maneuver standards:

ALT +/- 100'
Bank 45°+/-5°
HDG +/-10°
Speed +/-10kts

NOTE: Minimum safe altitude for this maneuver is 1500' AGL.

Reasonable recommendation is a minimum altitude of 3500' AGL.

Power on stalls are performed in the takeoff configuration:

1. Perform clearing turns.
2. Set power to 1700 RPM.
3. Below 110 KIAS.
4. Flaps 10° (or 0°).
5. Slow to Vr (55 KIAS).
6. Add 10° of bank if performing turning stalls.
7. Simultaneously pitch up and increase power to 2200 RPM.
8. Maintain coordination at all times.
9. Recognize and announce symptoms of approaching stall.
10. Sight, sound, feel.
11. Stall warning horn activates.
12. Aerodynamic buffeting.

Recovery procedure:

1. Reduce angle of attack.
2. Release enough back pressure to break the stall.
3. Level wings.
4. Apply full power.
5. Establish a shallow climb (100 – 200 FPM).
6. At positive rate of climb and approaching 62 KIAS.
7. Retract flaps to 0° (once obstacle cleared).
8. Climb at 74 KIAS to initial altitude.

NOTE: This stall may not cause any loss of altitude. In this case, lower the nose and establish a pitch attitude for a stabilized shallow climb (100 – 200 FPM) and level off at a determined altitude.



Power Off Stall

Maneuver standards:

ALT +/- 100'
Bank 45°+/-5°
HDG +/-10°
Speed +/-10kts

NOTE: Minimum safe altitude for this maneuver is 1500' AGL.

Reasonable recommendation is a minimum altitude of 3500' AGL.

Power Off stalls are performed in the landing configuration:

1. Perform clearing turns.
2. Reduce throttle to 1700 RPM.
3. Below 110 KIAS Flaps 10°.
4. Stabilize.
5. Flaps 20° then 30°.
6. Stabilize the aircraft in a descent at approach speed (65 KIAS).
7. After descending approximately 200', reduce power to idle (Not less than 1, 000 RPM).
8. Simulate landing flare by raising the nose to the horizon.
9. Maintain pitch by applying constant back pressure.
10. Maintain coordination at all times.
11. Recognize and announce symptoms of approaching stall.
12. Sight, sound, feel.
13. Stall warning horn activates.
14. Aerodynamic buffeting.

Recovery procedure:

1. Reduce angle of attack.
2. Level the wings using coordinated aileron and rudder.
3. Gradually apply full power.
4. Stop descent.
5. Retract flaps to 20°.
6. Establish a shallow climb (100 – 200 FPM).
7. At positive rate of climb and approaching 62 KIAS.
8. Retract flaps to as necessary to 0°.
9. Climb at 74 KIAS to initial altitude.
10. Complete both climb and cruise checklists after leveling off.



I can't begin to tell you how much costly flying and instructional time I had to waste perfecting these two demonstrations to-the-letter before my CFI signed by BFR last year. My only fear was the flight school bill.

[bruceapperloo]

Would love to see an entire stall with voice over, from the wing camera perspective. Everyone goes to cockpit view. I need to see what the plane is actually doing to get over my fear. Actual elevation, atitude and speed charted alongside view would be awesome. To me it feels as if I was going uphill but sliding down and therefore falling downwards, backwards out of the sky.

[campbewg]

Yes, I had that fear. The way I overcame that, I ask my CFI if we could do some spin recovery. After a couple spin recoveries, I became more at ease. That might have been a little extreme, but it did help. Thanks for the video.

[aviatordiego]

Checkride Friday so this came in handy, Thanks!

[rong]

Another great video! Thank you, Jason! See you at Oshkosh!!

[dean]

Yooo! I saw you today at KLEE! It’s been a minute since I’d seen one of your videos so I didn’t recognize you instantly but the plane looked so familiar! I was the kid there, we said hi but I was still trying to remember why you looked so familiar lol. I got my PPL in May and your videos helped me so much when I was trying to figure out something or just stressing. Cool seeing you!

[memp]

It’s the power-on stall that freaks me out. Always feels like it’s not gonna break properly.

[Robnord]

Perhaps if more GA pilots did stall practice more often, this fear that seems common would be reduced, plus there would be fewer stall/spin incidents. For years I flew UL/Sport in an experimental homebuilt. Stalls (including accelerated stalls and recovery from unusual attitudes) were part of almost every flight. Stalls were fun/play time 😎

[dougcooper]

Excellent Video! Amazing Jason! Thank You For Your Training!

[d.n.]

During training I never liked power off stalls. I didn’t like that sudden drop feeling

[webbm]

I had a student once that could never get over the fear. I tried everything I could think of. She was ok when I was flying them, but not when she was flying the airplane. I think she quit.

[lanefrost]

Any chance you could do a video on night radio communication? I just did my first night flight and got taken to school. I was behind the airplane the whole way.

[jordenlafortune]

Practiced stalls yesterday with 20 knot winds little harder to stay coordinated 😅😂