[quote=“mguenin, post:7, topic:42358, full:true”]Do you really want to be putting your students, or your plane, through this?
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What about a cross-controlled stall is so hard on the plane? Also, in my experience, plenty of pre-solo students can grasp and execute a cross-controlled stall and recovery and more. I think its about how and when it is demonstrated.
I’m with Kevin on this. From my small sample size in the midwest, the list of folks getting through training being scared of lots of things and less confident is getting longer than those who have experienced some of the “scary” stuff and are more confident stick and rudder pilots as a result.
I dare say whatever type of teaching is breeding this, the mentality is at pandemic levels, and sadly even trickling into the DPE pool. Folks are starting to think things like stalls are unsafe, and we must never cross-control, or we should never bank steeply in a descending turn in the pattern (my goodness). These are the same people that, as soon as wheels touch on landing, let go of the yolk as if to say “im done, we made it!” Good grief! The list goes on.
We are losing the days of folks who solo in 7 hours and successfully manage an engine failure into a bean field on their first lap in a fabric tailwheel airplane, or who were shown one spin by their CFI and then go up and do them by themselves while soloing because they were curious (probably much to the dismay of their cfi).
Not advocating the latter, just trying to make a point, which is we need more stick and rudder earlier on in primary training, not less.