At 11:12 AM 12/6/98 -0600, Mi Vida Loca wrote: >Frankly I feel that it is advantageous to do a few spins in your training, >but it's not really necessary. When I was learning, my instructor who I'm >sure signed off Wilbur and Orvill insisted on that before solo. He also >insisted you be able to put it down within 50 feet of the numbers before >solo. I do feel that like any other experience that is outside the realm of >normal flight it is to your advantage to have experienced it and learned to >deal with it. > >As everyone has probably figured out I am a big proponent of experience.
Amen. The whole spin training or not is an emotional argument. In more ways than one. Virtually EVERY newly-minted private pilot is intellectually prepared to recover from a spin. However, they aren't emotionally prepared to do so. The first time a dropping wing drops even farther when they try and correct it out with aileron and she rolls over, comes upright again, and the world looks like it's on a lazy Susan, the average human will be too busy making like a deer in the headlights to do the incredibly simple forward-yoke-opposite-rudder-break-the-dive thing. Worse yet, the average person doesn't really believe in his or her heart of hearts that 'kicking it around' on an overshot final will result in a stall-spin until they've tried it a couple of times. I think it's a lot like crosswind landings (which are a hell of a lot harder than spin recoveries). You can *know* what you're supposed to do but the first 5 or maybe 50 times you try and actually do it, the emotional reactions are just all wrong. Greg
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