flynrider via AviationKB.com wrote:
john smith wrote:
That gets me to wondering... what about a spin?
A spin will give you a high rate of descent at stall speed.

A descent rate in a spin is not that great. You can get down much faster
in a steep spiral dive.


Particularly after the wings separate. As an aside, back in the old days before
IFR, the poor slobs flying the mail would spin down through an overcast
intentionally, assuming they'd break out high enough to recover before they went
splat. Some won, some lost.

It seems to me that the thing to do with trying to get down rapidly is drop the
gear and the flaps, no power and the prop set full forward for maximum drag (or
at least to max rpm but not over redline), then dump the nose at the maximum
gear extended speed or top of the white, whichever is the lower of the speeds.



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Mortimer Schnerd, RN
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