On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:01:04 -0700, wrote:

Are parachutes required for spins in the U.S.? Not here in
Canada.

It's not easy to get spin training. My first instructor put the Cub
into a spin to demonstrate what it looked/felt like, but I wasn't
allowed to recover myself. And come to find out, spins are forbidden
by the airport that owns the Cubs. They are, after all, sixty-year-old
airplanes.

So I went out to Chandler AZ to take a course in "unusual attitude"
flying. The plane in that case was a Great Lakes, and I was required
to wear a parachute, but I think that was just an FBO requirement. And
in any event we soon transitioned to some mild aerobatics, for which
the chute was of course required.


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