You practice power-on stalls during flight training to learn to recognize and recover from them. But it’s important to understand that there’s a difference between experiencing a stall during training and stalling the aircraft accidentally.
Perhaps the catch is that during training, for safety reasons stalls are practiced in a controlled, coordinated scenario at a high altitude. In addition, you are even 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 as 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, like in an unexpected power-on stall during takeoff or a go-around, you’ll experience something startling at a low altitude when even a brief loss of aircraft control may be unrecoverable.
Margins of Safety: Avoiding Power-On Stalls shows the difference in training and real-world scenarios. Watch the video to see how a power-on stall can occur during a takeoff or go-around and learn about techniques you can use to prevent it from happening.
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