Rolling Circle - quite right!
I remember only one instance of a Bulldog taking longer than expected to recover from a spin - in this case to the right. No apparent reason - student did all the right things and the fuel was perfectly in balance.
Some months later the groundcrew were surprised when a Bulldog was refuelled and one wing tank was almost empty. The student swore blind that he'd had no more than 1 gallon imbalance, the gauge was checked and found to be reading substantially in error. So all the student's careful balancing had done nothing more than to create a dangerous imbalance. I checked my logbook....yes, the very same aircraft which had been reluctant to recover from the spin! Did they have the fleet checked? Did they hell! If we just flew with the fuel selected to 'Both' and left it there throughout the flight, perhaps there would have been less imbalance problems induced in Bulldogs?
Why were the gauges so utterly unreliable?
[ 17 August 2001: Message edited by: BEagle ]