les,

I'd have a talk with that judge.

I'm by no means perfect but I do know that an airplane in a climb is going to slow down, how quickly depends on the angle and pwer available. Even with excess power it still is going to slow, jsut not as quickly. Now if you still had throttle left you could do the climb and slowly increase throttle but that is gonna be tough to do and maintain a constant speed, now tosh in an element and even more speed is lost.

Also, I'm sure you are aware that stall speed does not have to be zero airspeed. In our models it's close but it certainly is not zero

If I am wrong someone correct me.