Did I hear my name being taken in vain ?
Mr HFH had this one .. and now he can come here and type it..
Just got qualified as an AFI and was checking out an experienced QFI with shed loads of hours on Cessnas who needed conversion onto the Pa38 Tomahawk... and I think you know what is coming ? we almost died because of a reverse cockpit gradient CRM problem
Showed him a spin.. his turn ... in we went, counted three turns.. felt the rudder hit the stop... four .. five..." It's not coming out !!!!".... Shouted "I have control" realised he had been holding the column all the way back throughout.... and the spin had gone into secondary mode .... and I pushed everything very hard to where it should have been, was aware of the ridgeline of the hills rising above us... and was thinking ...oh.. this is it
when out it popped still pointing straight down at a field that looked far to close..... saw airspeed was ok... and pulled to the buffet till the nose was pointed at the sky.
Tomahawks make a lot of noise when pulled to the buffet zone at high speed....... but all I could hear was my pulse.
