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Old 9th July 2019 | 09:18
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B2N2
 
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Be careful with claims like “this aircraft doesn’t spin” as a spin is an aerodynamic occurrence as the result of an asymmetric stall.
He may not be able to spin as the CG is too far forward.
I’ve flown at a flight school a lifetime ago where there was one 70’s Cessna 172 that simply wouldn’t spin no matter what you tried.
They had another one where every single stall led to a wing drop to the right.
Function of airplane and flight control rigging or lack thereof and tired old airplanes and probably bent.
I’ve also done hundreds of spins in the DIamond DA-20C1 Eclipse which is pretty spin resistant but when provoked will spin like the proverbial washing machine.
The only way you can make an aircraft impossible to spin is if you make it impossible to stall like with a canard design where the front wing stalls first and drops the nose and therefore prevents the main wing from stalling.
Now....people have been creative and have found other ways to hurt themselves in aircraft that “don’t spin”.

Might I suggest, with respect, that a more useful statement might be along the lines of "to teach to the present level of understanding held by the student with a view to improving that level of understanding" ?
@ Tullamarine and Genghis,
Quoted section is what I intended to say and whatever I put down came out different then intended.
Did not intend to but may have come across as insulting to G.
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