Stall warning....
Flying a new airplane without a functional stall warning is not advised.
Oh, dear. I had to stare at this for quite a while debating whether to say something or not. I probably have 40-50 hours in airplanes with a stall warning horn. Every time it would go off it would freak me out! What the heck is THAT??
Oh, yeah: the stall warning horn! BeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!
Is it a handy thing to have on an airplane one is not familiar with? I suppose. The Cub doesn't have one. I had all of 22 hours
total time when I bought the Cub at the ripe old age of 21; a long time ago! There was no such thing as a stall warning back in 1946 when she first took to the air; at least not on Cubs. That airplane taught me how to fly! Seat-of-the-pants kind of stuff.
I never thought of having one on SuzieQ. AOA wasn't available. And our early hours together went quite well without one and have gone very well since. And all the early hours in my
new, never-been-flown airplane were done by me; no one else has flown her. I would still go out and do slow flight and different types of stalls just to get the
feeling of what the airplane is
telling me. AOA? Haven't considered it. My stall warning: go out and do a bunch of stalls. What is the
airplane telling me? What does it look like? What does it feel like? Can an airplane stall without the stall warning going off? Yes. My reliance on what is going on
in the airplane is
secondary to what is going on
outside the airplane. It seems like there has been an increased reliance on the fancy instruments we have access to and less so of the Great Art of Flying the Airplane. IMHO; Nomex underwear in place!
Get out your popcorn.........!!
Mine is buttered and has cheddar sprinkles on it.....