[NSRCA-discussion] Fwd: AOPA Aviation Summit: Think you know spins?

Phil S. chuenkan at comcast.net
Wed Oct 5 10:23:37 AKDT 2011


Including the Pitts S-1-2??  I lost a student (not flying) to a Pitts 
crash one summer -- don't know for sure what he was doing, but rumor had 
it he spun in...

On 10/5/2011 12:17 PM, Murray Johnson wrote:
> This is a very good re-visit of the Meuller-Beggs emergency spin 
> recovery that is taught in just about every aerobatic school around. 
> Power off, hands off (let go of the stick completely) and step on the 
> hard rudder. If the rudder feels soft and mushy, you've got the wrong 
> one!! Interestingly enough the only tested aerobatic design that does 
> not recover with this technique 100% of the time is the venerable 
> Citabria! It requires anti-spin control inputs to guarantee recovery.
> Cheers
> MJ
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> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 5:42 AM, George Kennie <geobet4evr at gmail.com 
> <mailto:geobet4evr at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     http://www.aopa.org/summit/news/2011/110929think-you-know-spins.html?WT.mc_i
>     d=110930epilot&WT.mc_sect=tts
>     <http://www.aopa.org/summit/news/2011/110929think-you-know-spins.html?WT.mc_id=110930epilot&WT.mc_sect=tts>
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