She sounds like Snuggles
The stall series during flight training is most assuredly something that needs to be treated with care. My own experience is not something that I’m proud of, but hopefully will be a good lesson to CFIs that semantics mater.
Let’s take the phrase stick forward for example. Seemingly innocuous, it can be interpreted in several ways by a student pilot. For instance, how quickly and with how much force forward? During my stall training, I took this to mean press yoke into panel with adrenaline induced force. This caused the windscreen to be filled with the blue waters of Lake Lanier, and a very near elbow to the bridge of my nose from my CFI when he couldn’t immediately regain control of the the airplane. As he shouted, “MY AIRPLANE!”, I only let go when my Cessna press “Theory of Flight” (hard cover edition) struck the back of my head as it fell from where I had tossed it in the rear of the aircraft. My instructor, whom had about 700 hours teaching and had just received his notice of employment from ASA (Delta feeder), was pretty shaken. He gruffly said, “Take us back to the airport.” I felt ashamed.
Back at the FBO we debriefed over a Coke and after I described what I thought the recovery process was, he rephrased the actions to relax back pressure, rather than apply forward pressure. A light came on and I never had another issue again with any of my flight instruction. It seems pretty simple instruction, but one has to remember that a student is probably not going to be comfortable with high angles of attack, especially during accelerated stalls (power on), with the added incentive of the stall warning horn blaring.
Robby and I got along fine after that and we worked through stalls, slips, short and soft field takeoff and landings. He’s probably a Delta B767 capt now. So glad that I didn’t kill him. LOL.