Cessna 150 Aerobat spinning characteristics
Cessna 150 Aerobat spin characteristics. An incident occured where two pilots were carrying out spinning in a Cessna 150 Aerobat. After a six turn spin the spin flattened out with the nose rising to the horizon during the spin.
Standard recovery action had no effect. The two pilots then tried moving their seats forward and backward as far as possible to try and rock the aircraft to get the nose down. This technique had the desired effect and the nose dropped to nearly vertical as in a normal spin. Recovery action was then effective.
Two very shaken pilots,
Have any readers experienced similar incidents in the Cessna 150 Aerobat? Would the 'flattening' of the spin only happen after six turns or could this occur any time a spin is started on this type? In fact should it occur at all assuming the aircraft is correctly rigged?