PRACTICE AERODYNAMIC STALLS LIKE THIS - power on stall anxiety explained solved fly stall exercises

See how to understand power-on stalls, learn how to recover, and ultimately how to recognize and avoid stalls altogether.

Power-on stalls are typically demonstrated in two different ways: either out of an over-rotation or simulating attempting to clear terrain. In this video, I show you both of these techniques.

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📝 Contents
0:00 - Intro
01:51 - WINGS credit webinar
02:19 - Anxiety during stalls
03:43 - Why we don’t start here
04:30 - Practice out of a Vy climb
06:10 - The best way to start - with Ground School exercises
10:18 - Looking for a 172 and wrapping up
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[nickfishburn]

Relatively new CFI here- just tried the exercise in the second part of your video with a student yesterday and it was extremely beneficial for his comfort level and rudder skills. Hell, made me a better pilot just by demonstrating it! Thank you for sharing this.

[aviatortrucker]

Back in the day about 35 years ago, my instructor had me demonstrate a takeoff stall. This was at altitude, and we slowed down to 55 and applied full power, raising the nose and then turning slightly, about 15° to the left to simulate trying to clear terrain that would otherwise not be clearable without the turn. The nose would be really high, and then the stall warning would go off, followed by the break with a left wing dropping. The easiest and safest way he showed me was to keep the ailerons neutral, relax the back pressure and use high rudder sparingly to level the plane. High rudder meaning which ever wing was higher that was the pedal you stepped on. so, when the left wing dropped, it was applying right rudder but not to the stop. Just enough to roll the plane level. That was not scary at all.

[michaelmcauley]

Center the ball!! 80 percent of issues solved on stalls, , great work Jason. Instructors need to do more of easing into stalls.

[dougm]

I was very apprehensive about them. My instructor recommended aerobatics in the flight schools Decathlon. So much fun, apprehensiveness solved.

[drcode]

Thank you Jason. I always learn so much in a short time watching your videos. Definitely a better way to learn stalls than I was taught. Time for my BFR and going to bring this up with my CFI, Thanks again.

[maxrudder]

When my instructor noticed my apprehension about stalls, he said, "give me a power-off stall, and don't recover. Just hold the stick back and let the nose fall through." I followed his instructions. He pointed to the VSI and said, "Look. We're in a stall. Now, put in some left rudder." I did, and the nose fell off to the right. "Now stop it with right rudder. Good. Now make it go to the right and catch it with left rudder." I did. "You see? You have full control over the airplane, even in a stall. Now recover. That was called a 'falling leaf.'" I never felt nervous in a stall again.

[asfnash]

When I was nervous with power on stall, my instructor did this with less power as well, so we did 1 at like 1800 rpm, 1 at 2200 and then at full. Made me feel more comfortable with less of a break for power on stalls.

[chrisstevens]

Great timing, I am doing my PPL checkride prep.
Today I flew and we did stall revision.
At 60 hours of flight, it’s the only required skill for my PPL that still makes me super nervous.

[jaeahn]

As an AVL resident, thanks for mentioning my airport!!! We have many hills and mountains, but it is a complete privilege to watch the beautiful smokey mountain from the air!!

[AeroSafe]

Awesome video as always, Jason!
Probably one of the most important points you made: the way you recover from a stall is lowering the angle of attack, not adding power.
I ask students "what is the definition of a stall?" Of course we know a stall = when the aircraft exceeds the critical angle of attack. If we reverse the definition, recovery from a stall = un-exceeding the critical angle of attack. No power necessary. We add the power to resume a normal flight profile upon recovery, whether that is a Vy climb, level off, or go-around.
Your app looks awesome!!

[kaushikccu]

Jason, thank you!! You, Sir, are an amazing teacher! I'm close to my check ride, and, as you mentioned, stalls are still not comfortable for me. This helped tremendously. Thank you again.

[Yanosiik]

Hello,
@TheFinerPoints Could you make a video on how to properly use the carburettor heat for small Cessnas (like 152, 172 etc)? I think that every instructor teaches something different and actually only few knows when to pull it and when not to... I bet this would be top viewed video for a long time!

[LakshmikanthKishorRabi]

@Jason, around the 4:50 mark, guess you meant to say a Vx climb (to clear terrain ahead).

[Ifly]

Awesome video, thanks for the shout out. The I’m definitely going to adopt these techniques. Look forward to the next video.

[CaptainSultan]

Awesome Jason that the Carlos Santana intro is back!!!! And great teaching session again… I sometimes struggle with stalls and this is a great way to exercise

[anthonymiller]

This is very helpful. I had stall anxiety before and now that I’m a rusty pilot getting back into the left seat after 18 years of raising kids, I still have it. I think it got worse after getting into a spin once with my instructor during a BFR. This video helps demystify it and applies it to real scenarios. When practicing stall recovery, I often wondered how pilots ever stall because it seemed to take a lot of effort to get the plane to stall in the first place. I couldn’t imagine allowing that to happen turning final or during climb out, and yet we see it time and time again. Do you have any videos on slips va skids and how a skid can cause a stall?

[JazmineInjection]

I love practicing stalls with my CFIs!! But also it’s super hard to stall my training plane (Piper Cherokee 140) when we’re training. And the stall isn’t super noticeable in it 😂

[gerryortiz]

Good video. I find that most CFI’s chase the stall but rather you should hold the attitude and let the stall come to you as you demonstrated as it’s more realistic and scenario based. I teach it right off slow flight in transition to stalls lesson.

[halepauhana]

Good video. Here's something I've always wondered about: suppose you're in that slow flight scenario, trying to climb over a hill, and you realize you're not going to clear it. So you turn. But now you're turning at slow speed, surely you'll stall the plane AND spin it too, right? How come we don't get training to show what happens if you try that? Or how to avoid that safely?

[thefreshies]

Love your content. Just passed my checkride last week and your videos were very helpful. Thank you.