On Monday, April 27, 2020 at 1:41:56 AM UTC-4, krasw wrote:
On Monday, 27 April 2020 05:03:30 UTC+3, Steve Bralla wrote:
You referring to Puchacz as forgiving trainer. It is more pleasant to fly but not forgiving at all. Are you aware that over 10% of Puchacz fleet has been spinned accidentally to ground? This is absolutely appalling statistic.


Don't forget that the Puchacz can be flown without the rudder. Several years ago the AGCSC Puchacz landed at Warner Springs without the rudder and without the pilots (?) noticing. The rudder was never found.

I certainly know that rudder can fall off during ground roll.

Must make it harder to recover from a spin, eh?