One of the first things I was taught while I was learning to be a pilot was not to stall the wings or the plane would fall fairly quickly out of the sky.
So, when you get your private pilots license they make you stall the plane and then recover so you know how to do this and so you won't die as a pilot accidentally stalling the wings and then dying.
A man I met at a flying club had just flown his plane in from I think it was Utah to California and asked if I could give him a ride to the hotel as he didn't want to rent a car. So, I did. He told me a really great story of his almost fatal stall in a Cessna 172 when he was going for his private pilot's license.
He said he stalled the plane like was required of him by pulling back on the stick or yoke until the plane fell out of the sky. But, then he couldn't recover no matter what he did and he knew he was about to die. But, in the back of his mind he remembered his instructor saying: "the Cessna 172 is the most forgiving of stalls. If you cannot recover let go of the yoke or stick and it will automatically recover." So, he let go of the yoke and it recovered itself at about 1500 feet above the ground. He was so scared and traumatized at this point that after he landed the plane he had to crawl out of the plane and kiss the ground he was so messed up by almost dying.
But, somehow he overcame that trauma and stayed a pilot and bought a plane anyway.
So, if you are going to stall a plane in a test make sure it is a Cessna 172 that you can actually survive this test in.
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