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Old 29th July 2002 | 10:15
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Ludwig
 
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Spinning through cloud as a planned means of recovering to VMC sounds too stupid a plan to contemplate! If you have done a couple of one or two turn spins you may think it is easy peasy, but if the cloud is a couple of thousand feet thick and you have to spin say four or five turns, it could, on exiting cloud be going like a banshie; what height is required to recover from a five turn spin you should ask yourself. Bad plan

Better plan would be to spend a few quid with an instructor learning what the dials do.

Even beter plan, do an IMC/IR rating.

Back to spins. Neil Williams excellent classic "Aerobatics" talks about introducing people to spinning and comments that most instructors teaching spinning are not really that good at the entry. To paraphrase, he said that just at the point of stall they pull the stick hard back (for an erect spin) and stamp on the rudder, which gives a violent half flick entry to the spin, thus consigning another pilot to the ranks of the straight and level brigade.

Get a proper aerobatic instructor to show you how to do fully controlled, gentle spin entries is my advice, and then enjoy.
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