At 07:36 AM 21/09/04 +1000, you wrote:
>So are you suggesting that teaching spin training by only going to the
>incipient stage and never actually spinning in a real spin capable aircraft
>(one that REQUIRES a correct recovery is a good move)?
>
>I agree that recognising an incipient and recovering from there is better
>than letting a spin develop, however I have a friend in the UK who is still
>a friend BECAUSE he learnt to recover correctly - low hours, and with a high
>workload he mis-used the controls turning base, he had done 1/2 turn before
>realising what he was doing - recovery was very low !! His view afterwards
>was that he reacted on instinct based on thorough spin training - he was not
>conscious of actually recovering.
>
Pity they didn't actually teach him to prioritise his mental tasking so he
didn't enter the spin in the first place. He was lucky. A 15 year old and
his instructor weren't so lucky in the UK earlier this year when they set
out to do spin training in the Puch. They are dead along with about 40 or
so other people who have spun in in the Puch. Including two guys who were
USAF test pilot school graduates, fighter pilots and one of whom had not
long before done the USAF test pilot school spin testing on the K21. They
went in from 3500 feet AGL all the way down.
One of the other dead pilots in the UK was a customer of mine who was CFI
of his gliding club and was training another instructor.
Still think the Puch is completely predictable spinning and recovering
under all circumstances?
Mike
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