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Old 22nd August 2000 | 14:52
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Okay, 3 points I think,

1/ Nishko, you're right about respecting the a/c, but I feel that everybody can lose concentration or attention momemtarily. It's like when I put a student into a spiral dive saying that I'm going into a steep turn but forgetting to put put on extra power, forgetting to increase the back pressure and overbanking. They begin to look at me with that "but I'll never do that when I have a licence" face!! I feel its healthier to except we are human and acknowledge that sometimes we will screw up than blindly be expected to be this perfect non-mistake making pilot that doesn't exist!

2/Back when I did my PPL I asked to see a spin at the advice of a friend(cow!!). I did a few and learnt the recovery technique. However, what I think I most took away from that day was a healthy respect for an area of the flight envelope I did not want to go back to! More memorable than the recovery I would no doubt have forgotten/been unable to carry out in the heat of an inadvertant spin.

3/ Third point is one I'm sure you've all experienced. Couple of weeks ago simple check out for a new club member who had been taught on Warriers and came to fly our Tomahawks. He had flown Tom's before but as you can probably guess during the stall instinctively tried to pick up that wing with the bloody aileron. Now as I said he had been flying Toms before so is this an accident waiting to happen or an accident were making happen by putting ourselves in that position. Does anyone have the actual statistics to say when most spinning accidents happen?