Paul
Accidents from spins in the USA reduced not because of some magic awareness of stall avoidance but because spins were removed from
The syllabus.
Really spins in themselves are not the issue here training handling pilots is!
The author of the thread is scared of stalls because one stall did not go to plan and gave him a taste of what could happen!
Having had that taste the poor guy was peering into the unknown and felt unable or knowledgable to recover!
A stall can lead to a spin or a spiral dive!
The spin is not the big bad ogre many make out ! Pre war it was used as a controlled way to make a cloud break and recover when visual!
But this is not what the argument is about!
The tendency in training is to go more and more towards avoidance meaning that pilots so trained are not suitably trained beyond avoidance and that is fine as long as a situation does not occur where avoidance does not work!
You claim that spins and spirals only happen low level.
I fact they occur in Imc or around severe turbulence!
But that again is not the point.
I can be trained as a racing driver to understand the right lines correct braking , power application , understeer, oversteer,slides!
How would I be as a racing driver if I had never experienced these things!
How would I be as an ordinary driver on the day my avoidance failed and I understeered straight into a brick wall because I knew no better?
Pace
Last edited by Pace; 6th August 2012 at 11:18.