And don't spin at 20 ft AGL ----- Original Message ----- From: bbartsey To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:25 AM Subject: [ercoupe-tech] Re: Stall warning in Ercoupe
I don't think Ercoupers should be so in awe of a spin. Basically, all you have to do to recover from one is neutralize the controls and wait until you see something familiar, then recover. What you will see is a stable nose down attitude (dive)which is easy to recover from. I have flown only two aircraft that had a specific spin recovery procedure using specific anti-spin control inputs and both of those aircraft were military and they were jets. I have flown two civilian aircraft that if you stalled , you were a test pilot. One was a Lear Jet. Thing to remember, if you don't have the elevator control pulled back into your lap, you're not going to spin. In fact, if you push the elevator control full forward, you will "fly" out of the spin as the airspeed increases. I think that's what Eddie Stinson did when he was the first to make a spin recovery. He figured he would go in with a bang and instead the airplane recovered. Bart
