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Old 30th Aug 2001, 01:58
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Whirlybird

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Someone (can't remember who) suggested doing spins as part of the biannual check. Well, I wanted to do this during mine a couple of weeks ago. But before we could do it "officially", the aircraft (a C152) tried to spin during a stall. The instructor recovered it before it was fully developed, but I was already feeling quite ill, and we had to abandon any more attempts at anything like that. I'd still like to do it. I'm not scared of it, so don't tell me the feeling sick is due to nerves; it isn't. But I don't see how I'll ever manage a long enough session to learn anything. Maybe I should stick to helicopters, but since I want to keep my PPL(A) too, I agree that learning spin recovery would be a good idea, in theory. But in practice, how am I going to manage it? Any suggestions?
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