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Old 19th May 2005 | 15:28
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SnR,

Thanks, nice to be back. Never really went away.

Anyway, you're the man who knows about spins, but it does still come back to the fact that if you don't fly too slowly, you won't spin. If you don't let the speed drop on your approach, you won't spin, assuming you're not pulling a load of G to get back through the centreline.

Of course, the time this becomes really hard is when the engine has quit and you're in the process of screwing up the forced landing. At that point, you have to hope that your instinct to crash with the wings level is more developed than that to pull tighter and rudder harder because you're 'almost' in.

As ever, read Stick and Rudder.

QDM (In his PA18 'Pursoot ship')
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