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Old 10-26-2010 | 11:10 AM
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Default RE: Tip stalling remedies?

You wanted a trainer for aerobatics. That will be a good one. Aerobatic airplanes need to stall the wing. It's part of what they do.

The advice about tuning your elevator throws is excellent advice. It's how a lot of aerobatics pilots setup their airplanes.

You will notice that all the aerobatic planes have tapered wings. OK, except for the biplanes but they have such stubby wings. Tapered wings naturally stall from the tips. Mess around all you want to, and unless you really go crazy, your tapered wings are still going to stall from the tips. Can you mess around and reduce the probablilty? yes, but you can also tune your elevator throw and learn to watch airspeed and AOA more closely... and become an aerobatic pilot. Or become a better "bore holes in the sky" pilot no matter how your aerobatics goes.

Check out an IMAC meet someday. Watch the guys flying BASIC. Those are the maneuvers to learn first. And notice all their planes have tapered planforms. And they can actually be boring to watch, so few of them snap out of maneuvers.

Yeah, you got a good aerobatic plane and it really isn't a kamikaze at all.