"C J Campbell" wrote in message ...

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That wing will have a higher
angle of attack than the other; it will stall without warning and the
airplane will immediately begin to roll into a spin, possibly even inverted.
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Remember, it's not really established in the spin until you've made at
least a couple of turns (it's all about inertia). A simple wing drop
and roll/yaw excursion is just a spin entry or incipient spin. The
question about the Cirrus' recovery characteristics is still open
IMHO. If you manage to get the airplane stalled and drop a wing in a
big way, will it still just fly out of the stall if you apply
aggressive forward stick? How about after a half turn? What about a
full turn?

While it's possible that the airplane will not recover from a
developed spin, that does not mean to me that one couldn't recover
from a stall-wing-drop-roll scenario with just an authoritative push
and roll to upright. (Ever crossed over from an upright to inverted
spin by using a 'normal' entry and then driving the nose through as
the wings roll knife-edge? If you're not positive on the controls, it
can just wallow along and fall out into a mushy dive.)

-Dave Russell
8KCAB

The old fashioned way works fine for me.... strap the 'chute to your
ass instead of the airplane. It makes the "pull or not to pull"
question easy (if you are in free-fall, pull).