Spins

wrote in
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This spin entry was different. *There I was, about a seventy-degree
left
bank,
pulling hard on the stick to impress my buddy in the back seat, and
WHAM.
*Ol'
N1660G snapped to the right, went inverted, and tucked into a
whirling der
vish
of an upright spin. *

Yikes.

Okay. Do you think you'd have saved your skins if you had not taken it
upon yourself to get the extra spin training? What if you'd never
recovered from a spin before?

I admit that the prospect of death wonderfully concentrates the mind.
Still, practice makes better. No practice, well ...



But if you have no idea what is going on your chances are next to zilch.

The typicl spin accident, if there is such a thing, is the famous
overcooked turn onto final. You're at 400 feet or so, you're looking at
the end of the runway, let the speed bleed off a bit and you bank too
much and pull too hard whilst simultaneously trying to rudder it into
line with the runway. Next thig is a wing drops and the nose with it.
"What caused that?" you think. Now the airplane might not be rotating
much and your mind is now turned to a reptilian wire of instinct. You
aren't going to mentally turn to page 179 in Kershner and remember the
procedure for recovery because the verbal and logical part of your brain
is too busy screaming OH ****!. No, the reptilian part, the one you
wired with training, is the part that is going to save your bacon. Thing
is, you have to have wired it in the first place.. That is what all
training is for...

Oh and sorry, I know you were asking Ron, but I was on a roll!

Bertie