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Old 29th November 2004 | 06:49
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BEagle
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From: Quite near 'An aerodrome somewhere in England'
Cassidy's article on Bulldog spinning was most certainly not viewed as a 'great article' by everyone!

Why on Earth anyone should 'enjoy' spinning is beyond me. I used to teach spinning and suffered a few student handling errors as a result. Never could spinning be thought of as 'enjoyable'..... It was an essential part of the training we delivered and was straightforward enough to teach, but hardly 'enjoyable' in the way low level navigation or 1 v 1 combat were.

Also, there is NO SUCH THING as 'Standard Spin Recovery' - the ONLY way to enter or recover from a spin for training purposes is AS PER THE POH. Nothing else is acceptable!!!

One of the contributors on this thread has already mentioned a recovery technique which, if you tried it in a Bulldog, would probably kill you.

Don't ever take liberties with spinning - and don't adopt non-standard weird techniques thought up by those people who enjoy +10g to -10g.... Such techniques might well work in specialist applications, but are unique to type.
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