Elevator Trim Stall: A Must-Know for All Pilots

And you really should pay attention to this stall because according to the NTSB the highest fatality rate is the go around is to take off and it's because of the trim. The banana peels like that. Hey everyone this is Liz Brasov from ThrustFlight. I'm one of the chief flight instructors here. Today we're going to talk about the elevator trim stall. For more of a breakdown on the ground of what this stall consists of and how to perform it, watch this video here. And today I'm going to show you in flight the coaching and performance of the stall. Okay I will take the controls and do an elevator trim stall next. So we've just finished the pre-maneuver checklist and we've cleared our area. We just did a 180 180 degree curve to clear the area. So I'm trying to demonstrate as a CFI to a student, again not build their proficiency, but show them that because of your trip position sometimes that's what can lead you to a stall. So the scenario I'm going to give the student is we're coming in on a landing. We've got it tripped for a landing and we decide to go around. But landing trip isn't what I want in a go around power setting which can actually bring the aircraft to a stall. So let's set up like we're landing. So I'm going to pull the throttle back to about 1500 rpm. Gear drop and left downwind. And again I just want to hold out too as I'm doing that. So a little bit of back pressure, some nose up trim to hold that. And as we slow down below our flap extension speed I'm going to go ahead and put in first notch flaps. Let it stabilize. We'll put in the second notch flaps here. Checking my trim. I've got full flaps and I want to establish a descent. And again my landing air speed and about 500 foot per minute that's a pretty normal configuration for your actual traffic pattern. And I just want to be tripped to hold that. So I'm looking for roughly 60 knots and about 500 foot per minute in this airplane. And I want to trim so I could do that basically hands off. And then I'm going to go full power like we're going around. I'm going to work the rudder so we stay coordinated. But I want you to see what happens to the pitch. It's not me pulling back but it's going to actually raise the nose here considerably. So we'll go full power. Go around. I'm using some right rudder to keep us coordinated. And you see if I don't intervene this airplane's going to go straight to a stall. So I'm going to apply some forward pressure there to prevent it. I could let my student feel how much pressure is there to prevent us from getting to a stall. And then we want to correct it. So keep the power full. I put forward trim in and I make sure that I'm keeping the nose on the horizon here so we can build some airspeed. Take out the flaps one notch at a time. That's going to help us accelerate considerably. And now we know every time we do a go around if it's from a landing configuration we're going to need some forward pressure to prevent that airplane from raising the nose into a stall. And you really should pay attention to this stall because according to NTSB the highest fatality rate is the go around is to take off. And it's because of the trim. The banana peels like that. It goes nose high and you end up into essentially a power on stall right. I mean your nose up. You're at full power. You don't have any more juice that you could give. And if you're uncoordinated it's going to pull in the direction that it's uncoordinated. And then what do we call an uncoordinated stall? Well that's a spin. It's at least the start of it. So and then they just basically you're so low to the ground you end up spinning into the dirt and it's not enough altitude to recover from. So inspect the trim stall. Yeah definitely. Well that about wraps up today's video on the elevator trim stall. We hope you enjoyed it. Leave us a comment if you've got questions and don't forget to like and subscribe so you don't miss out on future videos.