Flying With A Friend
My friend has his pilots liscense and he loves to fly. We will get 1 or 2 people to help with the gas and just fly.
1 day he was playing like he always does and he went straight up until it stalled and cut off. This time he was playing about it not starting. I was like right. Wink wink.
He was telling us to look for a flat place to land. Im laughing at the other guy freaking out when my friend looked at me and cussed and said look for somewhere to land.
My friend never cusses so i just figured out he was serious. He barely got it started. He did not play around for a long time after that.
1 day he was playing like he always does and he went straight up until it stalled and cut off. This time he was playing about it not starting. I was like right. Wink wink.
He was telling us to look for a flat place to land. Im laughing at the other guy freaking out when my friend looked at me and cussed and said look for somewhere to land.
My friend never cusses so i just figured out he was serious. He barely got it started. He did not play around for a long time after that.
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Stalling a plane does not generally involve turning off the engine.
I sometimes practice stalls but the engine is always running. There are 2 types, power on stalls and power off stalls. The power off stalls are with the engine at idle (still running).
If the engine stalls (turns off) there is a restart procedure to go through.
Maybe your friend thought it would be funny to turn off the engine just to give some authenticity to scaring his friend.0 -
There are wing stalls and engine stalls. Just saying stalled is a lot like saying bullet: chances are, you are using the wrong term.
I think what dav is describing is an engine stoppage due to fuel starvation.0 -
There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots. 0 -
Rocky had it right. It cut off on its on and then he had a hard problem getting it started. 0 -
Joking around in an airplane is about like joking around with a loaded gun. You won't do it around me twice. 0 -
Doing stalls and shutting down the engine is not what I would call very smart. Learning what it feel like to stall a plane is part of the learning to fly, and lets you learn what one feels like and how to recover usually practiced with lots of altitude. I took a few lessons with an older instructor, in a Champ. When you pumped the primer you learned to not get your hand below it as it leaked a little gas. He would prop the plane to start it and would be sitting behind you by the time the engine was running smoothly. The first time we did stalls when I felt it buffet as the stall was imminent I lowered the nose. He quickly said no do a full stall so I held the nose up till we had a full stall then he said kick the left rudder pedal full. That thing would spin like a top, after doing and few of those he was smiling back there and said I just love doing those. Beinh a p p young kid, I thought he was kind of crazy quite ancient, now I am probably older than he was. It sure taught you how to recover from stalls and spins, and I enjoyed them about as much as he did. Oh the fun days of flying, in an old plane off a grass strip, where you learned a lot! 0 -
The T-37 was a top as well. It had four very different spin entries, due to engine gyroscopics. Nose high, right spin was the gentlest entry, and nose low left was the most violent. Low left was about like a half snap roll into a very fast, oscillating spin.
Teaching Iranians spins in a jet was an adventure, believe me...0
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