On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 14:59, Peter Stephenson wrote: > I recommend never to fly an IS29 off the winch for the first time without > experiencing a stall at height.
Rubbish Peter, What about cable/rope breaks? These can happen at low level even on an aero tow and you need to be ready to recognise and recover from a stall or spin without having ever seen one! This is exactly why we train people to recognise and recover from stalls and spins with minimum altitude loss (and brief on stalling/spinning as part of he conversion process to a single seater). There is absolutely NO problem with flying an IS29 off the winch, even if you have never stalled it before. How do you think people manage at winch only sites (quite apart from the stall/spin risk of an aero tow rope break)? What is necessary is that the individual is properly trained and briefed on the aircraft... a) so that they should not stall/spin off the winch (but we're all human, so we have back ups in terms of recovery actions)... b) so that they recognise stalls and know the minimum altitude loss recovery action instinctively (and have demonstrated this) c) so that they recognise incipient and full spins and again know the minimum altidude loss recovery action (and again have demonstrated this) If, as an instructor, you are not convinced that someone has got this down pat, then they should not be going solo in ANYTHING, irrespective of the launch method. If you are going to be an instructor, please think these things through before you start spouting rubbish in public. It does not do you any credit and, worse, it WILL confuse students (and even some trained pilots) who think that instructors are never wrong. -- Robert Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] +61 (0)438 385 533 Brisbane, Australia http://www.hart.wattle.id.au _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
