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Old 21st Jul 2006, 18:02
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It's also worth thinking about what you're planning on doing with your spin training, and whether the aircraft you'll do it in is representative of what you might experience after the training.

For example, the Aerobat has been mentioned here. A great little aeroplane, but like all C152s, it'll recover from the spin with just about any anti-spin control - just a little relaxation on the elevators, and out it pops. A good instructor will try to encourage you to use full anti-spin controls as per the manual's recommended technique, but it's quite hard to convince a student to do this when the easier option works so well. However, on many other types, you won't get away with this kind of slack recovery technique - you really do need full control inputs, so the Aerobat may not teach you the good habits you need to stay safe unless you have a very good instructor.

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