At 01:52 PM 15/04/2008, you wrote:
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>The guy was happy for me to fly it, even though it was supposed to
>be a pure passenger flight.
>He would not let me anywhere near the stall, even at 3000 feet, and
>despite being told we regularly perform sins as part of our training regime.
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>Perhaps it was just this particular pilot.
Presumably "spins" not "sins" and we kill people while doing this training.
I'm not aware of any convincing evidence that spin training prevents
inadvertant spin ins.
Canada and the US ran this experiment for 50 years. Much the same
aeronautical culture, same aircraft types. After 50 years the
canadians gave away the spin requirement as the inadvertant spin
accident record wasn't different from the US but they were killing
people while spin training which was unjustifiable.
By all means do some spin training. An hour in a Pitts or Citabria
with a really knowledgeable instructor will be enough(wear parachutes
and have pre briefed bailout plan) Then learn why an aircraft
*really* stalls and avoid in future. Besides it's bad for performance.
Maybe we ought to have a discussion on why aircraft stall. There was
an extensive article in the RAAus mag recently which missed the point
even though it was nicely illustrated in a photo in the article.
Mike
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