By Jeff Pardo

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 airspeed. Even so, when a pilot thinks about stalling in most flight operations, it is often with the airspeed indicator’s green and white arcs in mind.

When we induce a stall deliberately, it usually does still involve a nose-high attitude. But the reason for these rehearsals is usually not to practice the loss of control, but instead to learn how to recognize its onset, how to maintain control and how to recover with a minimum…