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Old 23rd December 2004 | 00:40
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Avgas172
 
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My one and only experience in a Tomahawk (training solo for incipent spin) resulted in an inverted spin at 4000 over the sea near Cairns in FNQ (Aus). I might mention it was totally unintended and resulted in the loss of about 1500ft, and I had the grand total of (about) 20 hours tt
at the time. The only thing that saved my bum was the words of my FI ( bless him) if in doubt let the wheel go take your feet off the pedals and see what happens ....what happened was a spiral dive which was fairly easy to correct. When I was inverted I didnt have a clue which way was up as I had a panaroma of blue above and below.
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