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Old 20th May 2002, 10:32
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Again all good stuff, thanks for responses. One point of interest concerning spinning and my incident. Only two weeks before it happened I had a free hour in an Aerobat and took it up to play. First idea was to loop having had it demonstrated in another type a couple of weeks before. At about 70„a nose up I decided I wasn¡¦t ready for that and opted for stalls and spins. This was the first time in three years I had spun and first time solo. I completed three, the last being best, unsure of height loss but standard recovery for type being employed having revised it before take off. It was an alien environment when induced, If it had been more unfamiliar when it happened for real ¡K..who knows?
This is a happy story and the experience was invigorating. Spin familiarity was my saviour and in future I shall watch for inadvertent backpressure, increased AoA and speed stalls.
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