Miserlou wrote:
STIK,
Quite unusual for most aircraft not to spin one way or the other without dancing on the rudders. If you've time to dance on the rudder you've got time to release the back pressure on the stick which is the actual cause of the circumstances you find yourself in.
Whilst I don't for one second disagree with you, I refer you to my earlier and often reiterated comment; if the aeroplane is flown in a balanced turn it will not spin!
I spin my aeroplane virtually every week, errect multiple rotations, errect accelerated, errect flattened, errect flattened with power, inverted, inverted flattened. Some crazy rides!
Whilst I think that it is an unnecessary burden to stipulate that the PPL fraternity must have spin training, I do believe that it is of serious value.
Several hundred hours ago, I thought I could fly - until I went flying with a chap who made the aeroplane dance and cavort through the sky, we went up and down, round and around and although the aeroplane stall speed was placarded at 63mph, the needle was often sub 40 and yet the aerolane was flying happily.
When we landed I asked a few pertinent questions and then reality dawned - I had a few hundred hours on singles and twins but I couldn't actually fly. All I could do was operate the airframe to a prescribed set of numbers and "drive" it from A to B.
I've spent the last ten years trying to "learn how to fly".
Any info I post on here is just me trying to help others understand the fundamentals.
Stik