One of the most dramatic and well-documented accelerated stalls took place during a Red Bull Air Race in Ontario, Canada, in 2010. AOPA Pilot Editor at Large Dave Hirschman joined AOPA in 2008. He has ...

Stalls occur when a wing's critical angle of attack is exceeded, with outcomes varying based on flight conditions; pilots must understand and regularly practice stall entries and recoveries for ...

Pilots often misunderstand that published stall speeds apply only to 1G, level flight; accelerated stalls occur when increased G-loading (e.g., in steep turns) causes the wing to exceed its critical ...

An accelerated stall is one in which the G-load on the airplane is greater than +1G. One place an accelerated stall commonly occurs is in an overbanked turn to final approach. Excessive banking has ...

"Advanced stalls"—including accelerated, cross-control, and elevator-trim stalls—are more dangerous and commonly encountered than simple power-off stalls. These advanced stalls often occur rapidly, ...

The term stall usually suggests a steeply climbing airplane or the cessation of motion, but we should remember from our initial ground school that an airfoil can be stalled at any attitude and any ...