Another stall spin

On Friday, August 31, 2012 4:25:27 PM UTC-5, Jim wrote:
My Monday morning quarterbacking: It appears to me that Bruno's yaw string also indicates he may have a heavy left foot and thus somewhat uncoordinated inputs too. None of us are perfect but we need to strive to be...



-Jim

I disagree - to me it looks like Bruno's yaw string is centered or indicates a slight slip - hard to tell from the camera angle. I know my LS6 likes to thermal with some slip - and theoretically, since the yaw string is in front of the CG, a slip indication is actually correct - a perfectly centered yaw string during a turn actually indicates a slight skid.

Bruno did exactly the right thing - recovered per the POH from a departure
BEFORE it became a spin, then continued to thermal. If you can't do that when you are thermalling your ship, please don't join me in my thermal - go practice until you can post a video on Youtube!

Kirk
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