Originally Posted by DIVESAILFLY
I've heard that if you disonnect enough of the Protection Factors in an A340 sim that it does quite an impressive spin. Not sure about the real a/c.
Barit + Rod, agreed.
One of the 320 sims we use does an impressive manoeuvre if you apply standard spin initiation, but I would call it a spiral dive rather than a spin. That might be because of the physical restraints of the jacks.
We learn a lot from sims eg: 'would the REAL aircraft do that?'. Usually the answer is 'yes'.
Not, I fancy, in the case of spinning.