AOPA Pilot Magazine - January 2016 - 104

NEWS & NOTES

AOPA FOUNDATION

Need a New Year's resolution? Don't wait another day. Join AOPA member
philanthropists who have funded AOPA Foundation initiatives in the past 12
months (www.aopafoundation.org/donate).
AIR SAFETY INSTITUTE

|

Find your margin of safety
Prevent an accidental power-on stall
WE PRACTICE RECOGNIZING and recovering from them over and over again
during flight training. Yet, year after year,
unintended stalls-including power-on
stalls-are among the leading causes of
fatal aviation accidents.
Perhaps the catch is that during training, for safety reasons, stalls are practiced
in a controlled, coordinated scenario at
a high altitude. Students are taught to set
up the stall and then recover from it with a
minimum loss of altitude. This means that
in training and during a checkride or flight
review, you know precisely what's coming
because you've just deliberately set up the
scene to demonstrate that you know how
to stall the aircraft and then calmly recover
from it.
But when it's not deliberate, such as in
an unexpected power-on stall during takeoff
or a go-around, you'll experience something that is sudden, sharp, and frightening.

In that situation, you'll be at a low altitude
when even a brief loss of aircraft control
may be unrecoverable. Margins of Safety:
Avoiding Power-On Stalls is intended to help
you recognize how vastly different training
and real-world scenarios can be.
Watch the video to see how a power-on
stall can occur during a takeoff or goaround, and learn about techniques you can
use to prevent one from happening (www.
airsafetyinstitute.org/avoidingpoweronstalls).

'WINTER ESCAPE'
QUIZ
YOUR SCENARIO: It's the middle of winter, and a trip from
Knoxville, Tennessee, down
to the sunny Bahamas sounds
pretty appealing. All you have
to do is get there! Some nasty
winter weather moved through
the Knoxville area during the
night, but conditions have
improved and you're ready to
depart. Take the quiz (www.
airsafetyinstitute.org/quizwinterescape) and test your
knowledge of instrument flight
rules and winter weather flying.

NEW ASI SEMINAR

'EMERGENCY! GETTING IT RIGHT WHEN THINGS GO WRONG'
WE TRAIN FOR THEM, but real-world emergencies are rare enough
that it's easy to get complacent. They don't always happen to
"other pilots," though, and preparation can make a big difference
when things don't go as planned:
What if you lose 500 rpm during takeoff, but the engine is running smoothly?
What if the ammeter drops to zero during a flight in IMC?
What if your left aileron develops a strong vibration in flight?
Emergency! Getting It Right when Things Go Wrong provides
expert tips on handling those "up here, but wishing you were down

104 | AOPA PILOT January 2016

there" scenarios. The seminar
focuses on how to keep abnormal situations from becoming
full-blown emergencies, offers
advice on keeping critical problems under control, and shares
best practices for off-airport landings.
Visit the website (www.airsafetyinstitute.org/seminars) for
dates and locations near you. Icons identify if it's a fly-in or one of
ASI's unique aviation locations.

http://www.aopafoundation.org/donate http://www.airsafetyinstitute.org/avoidingpoweronstalls http://www.airsafetyinstitute.org/avoidingpoweronstalls http://www.airsafetyinstitute.org/quiz-winterescape http://www.airsafetyinstitute.org/quiz-winterescape http://www.airsafetyinstitute.org/quiz-winterescape http://www.airsafetyinstitute.org/seminars

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of AOPA Pilot Magazine - January 2016