Cessna 150 Price Outlook

The spin is noticably flatter (but still quite recoverable)
when close to the back of the Utility range.

Fascinating. I'd never heard of people spinning Cherokees. I've had an
ingrained assumption (prejudice?) that low wing airplanes are much more
susceptible to unrecoverable spins than high wing. That's what always made me
feel safer in low-end Cessnas.

Maybe I was unfairly traumatized, but I saw a guy get killed when he couldn't
get his Pitts out of an inverted flat spin. I know that's a different beast
than what we've been discussing, but I'll always be hugely wary of spins.

Dave Sproul - Bethesda, MD

DaveSproul wrote:
:The spin is noticably flatter (but still quite recoverable)
:when close to the back of the Utility range.

Good to know. It's a pretty difficult beast to nail down, from
what I've seen. I happen to know that it's not legal to run mine in the
utility category anyway because of the engine upgrade, so that legally
kill the spin idea.

: Fascinating. I'd never heard of people spinning Cherokees. I've had an
: ingrained assumption (prejudice?) that low wing airplanes are much more
: susceptible to unrecoverable spins than high wing. That's what always made me
: feel safer in low-end Cessnas.

I've got a friend who used to do rolls in his Cherokee 140.
Especially entertaining because when he took his brother up and did an
aileron roll, his brother went back to his instructor and was then
informed that it was, "impossible to do a roll in a Cherokee." Right....


-Cory

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