My club has also safely flown a Puchacz for many years, its spinning
charachteristics are as good or better that most if not all two seat
gliders, it is started and stopped exactly as stated in "the book" The thing
that is different with the Pooch is that it will lose more height than most
two seat gliders when spinning and recovering. I suspect that the Poms would
spin from a 1000Ft or lower winch launch, as they would do with a K13 or
similar, and would have insufficient height to recover. The cure is simple
start higher. Some years ago to speed up a decent a couple of our
instructors did over twenty (20) rotations in our Pooch with no ill affects
to themselves or the aircraft.
McG
Harry,
Flame suit required.
My club has had many years of safe Puchaz operations, and we plan to
continue that way. If a pilot flies an aircraft inside its flight
envelope,
as trained, and inside their weather thresholds, there is a very low
possibility there will be a problem.
My personal belief is that the importation of gliders with a poor safety
record, such as the Puchaz with its history of spin related crashes should
be discouraged or banned by the GFA. Wait a minute before replying until I
don my flame resistant suit!
Harry Medlicott
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