"Happy Dog" wrote in message ...
"Ben Hallert" wrote in message
...or that could be impact damage. 500 feet seems low, but that's what
the corridor allows. 30 degrees of flaps... I speculate that slow
flight was being demonstrated. For some reason, the plane slowed past
the stall point at an angle and entered a spin, then had insufficient
altitude to recover.

Maybe not slow flight. An instructor would, probably, not do this on a sightseeing tour and without sufficient
recovery altitude. But, speculation on that aside, I often use a notch or two of flaps when doing a sightseeing tour.
Gives a bit more nose down attitude. Maybe it was that.

moo


Yup 10° flaps for that sort of flying...