[zodPod]

"They put the plane into a stall to make sure it can recover" CAN YOU IMAGINE? lol Could you imagine being the guy who wakes up in the morning and is like "Today I get to put a plane into stall to make sure it can recover" shivers

[sjburt]

This is a normal part of pilot training. I think it's less common in large aircraft but for small planes it's not uncommon.

[mulmen]

Normal pilot training does not involve testing aircraft limits. Stall training happens in a plane with a known stall speed and behavior. The quote is about finding that limit for the first time.

[nsxwolf]

It really doesn’t feel like anything special is happening either, and recovery is quick and easy. It’s a non-event at altitude.

Spin training though, no thanks!

[ubernostrum]

Well, the nice thing about most planes is that they don't want to stall, and most of the time the correct action to recover is "stop doing things and let the plane recover". It's when you keep messing with it that you make things worse and get toward unrecoverability.

[zodPod]

I'm going to reply here because multiple people said it:

I'm aware that stall training is a common occurrence but the difference here is that you're testing with a plane that is massive and may have no nearly been tested as much before. What struck me was the "Make sure it can recover" it's not a test for the pilot's training to see if he can recover it. It's testing the plane's capability to recover. Sure the pilot could still end up recovering it if it doesn't but the sheer size of this plane is what mostly made me surprised!

[Doxin]

I'm fairly sure that the engineers have figured out a pretty good estimate of the stall speed before they send a pilot to go test it

[nunez]

Recovering from a stall is something you learn very very early into flying