Re: More on spins

[Mi Vida Loca]

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. Reading about it or simulators (at least one we can afford) just do not really do the trick. They are helpful but still not the same. When I was working on my instrument ticket with another younger instructor I called up one rainy crappy day to go fly, his response was it was bad weather. I told him I knew that and that's why I was calling. I had no desire to fly under the hood, just isn't the same. He said I needed to find someone else because he had never actually flown in bad weather and was not comfortable trying to teach in such conditions. I called my old instructor and begged him to go back to instructing (he was retired) He said he'd meet me at the airport and was glad I was willing to get into the muck. He pushed experience above all else, said it was something about experience, mistakes and all are what keep you alive in the tight situations. To this day I still go out periodically and practice S turns, turns around a point, engine out, the whole bit. Practice makes perfect. and experience is the icing on the cake.




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