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Old 21st Apr 2006, 21:51
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bogbeagle
 
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A few months ago, I searched the NTSB website for spin-related accidents. To the best of my memory, not one of these involved a turn onto final.

If you are dumb enough to spin off the turn onto final, you are surely not going to be smart enough to recover in the 500-or-so feet available to you.

The spin-related accidents on the NTSB website had many factors in common....exhibitionism, low-level aeros, air displays and attempted VFR flight in IMC were amongst those factors.

In my opinion, the bulk of these spinning accidents are caused primarily by Human Factors. I mean that they are not primarily "handling" problems, but are caused by the pilots wilfully placing themselves in impossible situations. All of the spin training in the world would have made no difference in many of these cases.....once control was lost, the outcome was inevitable.
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