Hi
Was trying out the 109E last night for the first time and it occurred to me that in the New Pilots thread there isn't anything on Stall Recovery. Its amazing what occurs to you as you tumble from about 20,000ft.
With that in mind, how about a bit on stall recovery because I think its quite a common occurrence when you're learning - hell, sometimes I think my planes default defensive posture when being shot at is to turn round and round really quickly!
Anyway, link to the 109E recovery thread is here:-
http://theairtacticalassaultgroup.co...ead.php?t=3398
The Spitfire recovery (apparently also works for Hurricanes) I use is like this:-
Let go of control stick (or move it to the center position) and cut throttle back to idle.
Apply opposite rudder to direction of spin. IE spin to the left, apply full right rudder.
Move stick very slowly forward until the spin stops. If it doesn't stop center stick and try again.
When spin stops, apply throttle and pull back gently on stick to resume level flight.
If this doesn't work and it looks unrecoverable, drop gear then flaps to see if that changes the attitude of the aircraft - has worked for me a few times.
Bail out and walk back to the airdrome and take the time to work out a story about how you were jumped by 4 109E's but you still managed to shoot 3 down.
I'm open to suggestions about other stall recovery techniques and if you have any for other aircraft then add it here and we'll see if that nice Mr Lewis can update the post.
Cheers
Alan
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