Originally Posted by
Peter Fanelli
GetThereItIs
As someone with a bit of time in various Piper low-wings, I'm thinking a low altitude stall-spin (the left wing drop), due to a good dose of getthereitis (don't want to miss the big race!) with a decent serving of wind shear and zero altitude to recover could easily end this way.
In my experience, taper-wing Pipers, having a longer wingspan, are more stable in roll but once upset (eg. by a gust) require more roll control input to recover and are slower to respond than the Hershey-bar slab-wing types which are shorter and have a higher-lift profile.