video of my spin

They were coerced to get a good spin going, not forced. :-)

I think it's reasonably realistic in that most of the time people who
accidentally stall/spin do so with the nose high. This isn't based on any
study but just anecdotal information from other CFI's.


-RM



"john smith" wrote in message
...
Thanks for posting.
Looks like your friend forced the entry of each spin, though.
The nose shouldn't jump up above the horizon.

On 2005-06-21, Nobody wrote:
how quickly the nose fell, the nose down attitude during the spin, and how
fast it rotated.

Try a right hand spin with full power in a Decathalon. That is FAST.

I've spun Blanik gliders on numerous occasions. If you look sideways
during the spin exit/recovery, you'll see that in a Blanik, once the
spin is stopped you are pointed *straight* at the ground.

--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
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"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 10:52:20 -0000, Dylan Smith
wrote in
::

I've spun Blanik gliders on numerous occasions. If you look sideways
during the spin exit/recovery, you'll see that in a Blanik, once the
spin is stopped you are pointed *straight* at the ground.

I never noticed that in the B-13. Do you suppose it is somehow a
product of the negative sweep?

Dylan Smith wrote:
On 2005-06-21, Nobody wrote:
how quickly the nose fell, the nose down attitude during the spin, and how
fast it rotated.

Try a right hand spin with full power in a Decathalon. That is FAST.

I've spun Blanik gliders on numerous occasions. If you look sideways
during the spin exit/recovery, you'll see that in a Blanik, once the
spin is stopped you are pointed *straight* at the ground.

Same as with a Slingsby T31b
and a Rhonlerche did the same to me once

Nobody wrote:
Based on what I had read about spins, I didn't think we
were spinning. I had no idea what was happening. The only thing that
crossed my mind was structural failure. Had it happened to me while solo, I
doubt I would have recovered.

I did an inadvertent spin as a solo student. If you've had spin
awareness training, you probably would have remembered to apply
opposite rudder eventually. Assuming you started the stall at a decent
altitude, the descent rate isn't nearly as bad as it looks out the
window. There's time. I probably went through 3 turns in the 152
before I deduced that it must be a spin. By that point, I'd figured
out that my instictive control inputs on the elevator and ailerons were
having no effect.

Since then, I've practiced spins regularly in my plane. They're a
lot more fun when you're expecting them g.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

In article , Nobody
wrote:

Neat spin videos! Thanks for posting them!

Please right click and download them. Otherwise you'll have to replay them
because they'll stall (no pun intended).

Doesn't stall at all on a Mac, using the Quicktime plug-in. Must be a
Windows thing. :-)

Replaying them will just use up
the allotted bandwidth on the site I manage.

Hmmm... weird. For me, they replay from the Quicktime plug-in's cache,
not from your server, so no need to hit your bandwidth allocation.

Thanks again for the link!

--
Garner R. Miller
ATP/CFII/MEI
Clifton Park, NY =USA=

Garner Miller wrote:
Doesn't stall at all on a Mac, using the Quicktime plug-in. Must be a
Windows thing. :-)

Works fine on my G4 iBook with OS 10.4.1 and QuickTime 7.0.1
I even downloaded it and saved it.