I´d like to see spinning either fully in or fully out of PPL training, this halfway house is no good. Some instructors take people spinning, some don´t go near it and some take them to the full incipient half-rotation point (me). A bit of a dogs breakfast really.
I particularly find alarming that a young chap or chapess can pitch up and get a full commercial pilots license without ever having spun an aircraft. If all you´ve ever done is stall recovery in a PA28 Warrior and then a few incipient jobs in a Senecca you would get one hell of a suprise in something as mundane as a PA38 Tomahawk should you stall the thing. Wingdrop to my students is about 15 degrees of gentle bobbing to the right or left...
Perhaps thats OK if they go striaght onto multi crew commerical ops but what about the ones who end up instructing or on air work, charter, taxi stuff! Bad time to be finding out about departure from controlled flight when you´ve got punters down the back. Plus I feel they lack the ability to control the adrenalin rush stroke panic that you get when an aircraft bites. If you´ve never been past 45 degrees AoB or 30 degrees of pitch then you´ve never really had a chance to get comfy and sit there with grim faced calm NOT panicking as the world turns upside down.
Mandatory spinning and aeros in the JAA CPL module please.
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