Some may do spin training to dispel the "going down in flames" image (which usually looks, when shown in movies, much more like a spiral than a spin),
but I am glad I got the training because otherwise, when an inadvertent spin entry happened in real life (poor recovery from a deliberate secondary stall), I wouldn't have known what happened and I wouldn't have known what to do. The "out-the-bottom" spin that occurs when over-ruddering the turn to final doesn't feel at all like the "pull-the-nose-up-and-press-one-rudder-to-the-floor" spin entry that is usually taught to student pilots. The day I got the first spin training turned out more interesting than I had expected. CFI had booked his nephew's 7ECA for the day, and had made a phone call I wasn't aware of. We took off, I felt the airplane out (had been flying my own Stinson for training), and we leisurely gained altitude, dutch-rolling and 720-ing and chandelle-ing..... All of a sudden, CFI says in a sharp voice, "where did he come from?", looking behind us. There it was, a Chipmunk on our tail. Maneuvering followed. Drastic maneuvering. We couldn't shake him. So we spun. And recovered. And there was that darned Chipmunk again.... Many thanks to Floyd Tuckness for enlivening a day of spin practice.... Candy
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