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Old 7th Nov 2018, 13:21
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Originally Posted by Concours77
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You are incorrect that action led to a “massive control displacement.”
There has been an (still unexplained) rudder deflection, not large in numbers but still quite massive at cruise speed, which made things significantly worse.

Do we really know that there was a significant "rudder dieflection"? With airspeed just a bit above the maneuvering speed, a pull-up into a full stall is dangerous but semi-benign - it would cause the G force to exceed the rated 2.5G - but only briefly and not by much. But combined with a rudder deflection, it becomes a snap roll. A snap roll is not really a roll. It's a powerful horizontal spin.
I've done snap rolls in a Citabri with a header tank.
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