This flight is taught since the flight characteristics I learn in it are the symptoms of dangerous things such as stalls and spins.
Slow flight is, for the Cessna 150, the airspeed range between flight for endurance speed and the stall speed, and is the entry to a stalled condition.
To get into it, the nose is raised as the RPM is lowered, maintaining altitude. At around 55 knots, the plane is in slow flight, and has a nose-high attitude. Air flow around the engine is reduced, though, so we can’t fly slow flight for very long. Unal got me to practise some turns in slow flight, and it was amazing how small the turning radius was.
Unal then demonstrated power-on as well as power-off stalls, and then got me to do a couple. I think I did pretty well, except for one recovery. I had stalled the plane, the left wing had dropped, and I put in right rudder to correct the wing drop. What I did wrong, though, was to increase power before reaching a safe speed, causing the plane to violently stall to the right. Fortunately, Unal caught the problem, recovered, and made me try again!