Originally Posted by
ShyTorque
Strange how the brain can begin to dust off some of its old pages. I recall that the old Jet Provost 3 wasn’t allowed to be aerobatted or spun if there was any fuel in the tip tanks and if that was part of the sortie profile it was normal to take off with “half tips” so they would be empty by the time you climbed to minimum entry altitude. One of the pre spinning checks was to confirm that the main gauge reading had begun to decrease. At least I think that’s correct…..it’s 44 years since I last flew one and a year longer since I nearly killed myself by inadvertently flick rolling then spinning one inverted from a badly botched aerobatic manoeuvre (had I not previously recovered from one in a C150 as mentioned earlier I might not be here writing about it).
A similar cockup in a JP (Strikemaster in fact) may well have been a factor in the sad demise of an ex Harrier display pilot of my acquaintance, quite some years later.
Shy, my recollection of the JP 3A is the same as yours but ISTR no fuel in the tip tanks was allowed for spinning.
Ah, the memories of watching North Yorkshire spin quickly one way and then the other as I tried to stop the high rotational spin..
I have recently passed GST on an Ikarus C42 microlight which you are not allowed to spin - the recovery was talked about during the training but I feel my 40-year old experience of actual spinning is more valuable.