On Sep 14, 12:06*pm, Mike the Strike wrote:
On Sep 14, 8:54*am, "
wrote:

On Sep 14, 7:43*am, Frank Whiteley wrote:

Everything went right after everything went wrong

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...m-air-crash-pi....

Would it not have been better for the pilot to stay in the cockpit
untill rescue crews arrived?
Obviously in this crash as in many others involving gliders the chance
of spinal cord injury is great. I would think that extracting yourself
from the cockpit would increase the chance of aggravating any injury.

Robert Mudd

Classic stall spin from low altitude under strong wind/ wind shear.
You'd have thought an experienced aerobatic pilot would have seen that
coming. *He's very lucky!

Mike

Mike

You'd think... Years ago (young, single, no kids, etc.) I used to
fly in whatever I could whenever I could. I was extremely current/
proficient, including doing some intro-aerobatics instructing in an
L-13AC. A guy at the local airfield invited me up in his two-place
Fox because he wanted to improve his thermalling technique. He's
rocketing around at almost 60kts and 20 degrees of bank and we're
barely climbing. "Let me show you how it's done" I called from the
back seat. "I got it. See here, you just bank it over a bit more,
slow us up a little." "Umm" he says, you might want to watch that
airspeed." "Well, you have to get us slowed up a bit or we'll..."
I started. Never finished that sentence, as by then we were staring
straight down at the ground rotating at a nice rate.

The thing departed into a spin with absolutely NO warning. NO buffet.
NO complaints. One minute we're flying. The next we're spinning.
It really felt like the controls came disconnected. The stick had
almost no load on it for a few seconds. I recovered uneventfully, and
we both had a good chuckle.

Point being, these aerobatic ships with anhedral and symmetrical or
near-symmetrical airfoils aren't very forgiving. There but for the
grace of God...

P3