Back in the way distant pass (really, a long, long, time ago), at a time when spinning was part of the PPL training, I frightened the pants off my instructor on a refresher flight by nearly putting the a/c (C150) into an inverted spin.
To this day, I have never understood the difference, what I did wrong, nor why it was so bad (he said it was unrecoverable). I have never spun an a/c since then (despite having asked some FIs – all of whom quickly find reasons for not doing them!).
Can anyone elucidate on why it would be not recoverable, and what was I doing wrong in the first place?
The spinning technique taught at the time (IIRC) was power back but not off, nose well up with speed dropping close to stall, then pull back and apply full rudder. Hold controls in position as a/c enters the spin, count the turns and recover.
GB
(Before you all warn me, I don't intend spinning any a/c in the future, unless under proper supervision
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