C172 and Spins

On Mar 17, 6:38 pm, Dudley Henriques wrote:
Dan wrote:
Anyone else have expereince with the C172E (1964)?

No matter what I did I could not get that bird to spin to the right.

Left spins take some work, and power helps (of course).

But right it just wallows and then steep spirals.

Dan Mc

Try accelerating the stall a bit just before reaching the 1g stall point .
Decelerate the airplane carrying just a bit of power into the stall,
then just before it would break naturally, apply aggressive pitch, as
the stall breaks, apply full pro-spin rudder. It should break a lot
cleaner and right into the spin; assuming normal rigging.

--
Dudley Henriques

So a sharper transition to full back pressure?

I tried entering a bit faster (80 MPH) to have enough energy, but no
dice.

As far as rigging -- good question. The right rudder authority seems
less than left. I thought it was left turning tendencies but may
simply be out of rig.

It spun to the right quite nicely from a cross control turn to the
left, but you would have to be a total nincompoop to let that happen
in that airplane -- full left rudder, full right aileron, and yoke all
the way back to the stop.


Dan Mc