At 08:15 AM 12/4/98 -0700, you wrote: >> On spins: How do you all feel on this.??.. I believe you can't fully >> prepare someone to recover from a spin unless they have been trained >> by a number of them entered from several atitudes. I believe the >> panic of entering a unsupecting spin (because it's a feeling all it's >> own) would be overwheling and everything told you wouldn't be there.
I have all of my students do spin entries and recoveries. I think pilots are better off if they're familiar with spins, so that they know what causes spins, and how to "feel" it coming and stop it. I don't think it's mandatory, though. It's fine to just do a few cross-controlled stalls and show how spins begin and how to stop the spin from happening. Sometimes I have the student to a couple of power-on stalls with NO rudder input, which teaches them the importance of rudder in the climb, PLUS gives them recovery practice from a spin entry. After I've demonstrated it first, of course! It's important to develope the right corrective action early on in the training though because a student's first reacton when a wing drops is always opposite aileron, and forgetting to pitch down first to fix the stall. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Dold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://home.pacbell.net Say NO to useless over-quoting ----------------------------------------------------------------
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