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Old 7th September 2000 | 23:47
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John Farley
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Spiffy

If I have any part to play in you being confused or worried my apologies! – although I suspect you have your tongue firmly in your cheek. But in case you did not.....here goes

We all agree currency is important in all things aviation. To get recurrent (safely) with spinning IMHO just requires one to put the odds in ones favour, no big deal: You know what you should do. Just do it with the special care associated with switching off an unexploded bomb.

Have at least 6k above local ground level (or more if you can afford the time)

Have no appreciable cloud below you. Do not spin down into a limited hole. Have a good visual horizon.

Do your hazel checks

Decide which direction you are going to spin and start with the sun in view.

Tell yourself 2 turns only and plan to shout them out loud with respect to the sun

Enter with crisp full control inputs using two hands to hold the stick back with ailerons neutral

Call the first (mainly roll) turn as 1

After two turns shout recovering and be very careful to swop the rudder fully – indeed wedge the blighter as hard as you can, shout pause and start moving the stick progressively forward (all the way if necessary but it probably will not get that far before its out)

Shout three if the sun goes by again

As soon as the thing speeds up its rotation rate and drops its nose and the airspeed lurches up, be ready to quickly and positively centralise the rudder and stick.

Most spins that go weird are because something in that list of control actions was done sloppily or imprecisely.

When that is fine go back up (all the way) again and do it again with 3 turns before recovery.

Stick with one direction until happy to do your personal target of turns before trying the other direction – and build up gradually again.

Oh dear I am an idiot you knew all that.