--- In [email protected], "Ed Burkhead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm getting the impression from the comments on spins that once you enter a spin, you will stay in a spin. Not so. A wing has to remain stalled for the spin to continue. All you have to do, in most aircraft, is release the back pressure and the airplane should fly out of the spin unless it is in some sort of a flat spin. (I really don't think you could load an Aircoupe far enough aft to worry about a flat spin, even if you could enter a spin given the limited amount of up elevator available.) Seems like the power on gyrations described are more due to torque roll than a spinning tendency. I instructed in an airplane once that would not recover from a spin without aggresive counter-spin controls, or so we thought. Found out we could accelerate the airplane out of the spin merely by pushing forward on the stick and letting the airplane accelerate itself out the bottom. So, if in doubt, if I got into a spin in the Ercoupe, I would push forward on the yoke and accelerate out of the spin. I would also guess that if you just nuetralized the controls until you saw something you recognized, then recovered from that, it would also be successful. Speed is life. Bart
Bart Bart > > :-) I'll agree with you, John and Wayne. Deliberately forcing a Coupe > into a spin seems like a bad idea. > > > > I felt very tentative when I tried the cross-control stall testing on my > Coupe, did it in increments and didn't push it too far. > > > > Ed > > (Suspenders, belt and a piece of rope in your pocket!) >
