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Old 17th Jul 2001, 06:02
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I would recommend all those power pilots who have not been gliding to do so .
You will receive plenty of spin training, but more importantly, incipient spin recognition and automatic recovery.
On a long cross country flight ( 500-600 km) her in Oz and on a good day ( 8kt+ thermals) one has as many as 10 to 15 incipient spin entries , all of which are automatically corrected often without even putting down the sandwich or muesli bar!
I speak from 2000 + power hours and over 600 gliding.
I prefer and recommend the latter.
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