Puchaz Spinning thread that might be of interest in light of the recent accident.

Ian Johnston wrote:

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:35:43 UTC, (Chris
OCallaghan) wrote:

: the point of my link was to show that you will not spin from
: coordinated flight.

Tight turn. Slow speed. String in the middle. Pull up sharply as if
another glider has just cut into the thermal. Whoops. Well, it works
in a Bocian, anyway.

Ian
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Another way I experienced it during my 1st flight in an ASH25 (with
an instructor in the back seat of course). Circling in a thermal, with
just to much aft stick than approriate. Speed slowly decayed (slowly
beacause the hight weight and inertia of the glider), induced roll
and yaw slowly increased, needing more and more inside rudder and
outside stick, up to the point where a incipent spin started, immediateley
stopped by releasing back pressure and centralizing ailerons and rudder.
At the time of departure, stick and rudder were strongly crossed,
but the flight was coordinated and the yaw string in the middle.