Originally Posted by
tggzzz
Spin entry and recovery is, of course, a normal part of pre-solo training in gliders.
On one of my flights immediately before first solo, I did three multi-turn spins. So does everybody else at the club.
You can recover at any point in the spin entry and obviously if you enter an inadvertent spin you would want to recover as soon as possible, ideally while still in the spin entry phase, so it would appear to me that if you are doing multi-turn spins you are spinning for the sake of spinning. To me the only type of flying where you want to deliberately spin an aircraft is as part of an aerobatic flying sequence. Spins are part of the Canadian CPL sylabus and from what I see is a lot of students are spinning the aircraft because it is "cool" and a "rush". I overheard one young hero boast about his 10 turn spin in a C 152 and how it had really "wrapped up" towards the end. Spins should not IMO be looked as aerobatics for non aerobatic pilots. If pilots want good spin training they should get an aerobatic airplane and and an aerobatic instructor and learn how to do them properly. At the school I worked for 2 C 152's had bent horizontal tail spars as a result of botched spin recoveries.
Bottom line "spinning" at the flying school level should be all about avoiding the spin in the first place and if one is careless enough to let the aircraft start into a spin; to then recover immediately. Therefore IMO there should never be more than a 1/2 turn during any flight school spin training
I am not a glider pilot so I have a question. Is there any part of any glider flight where you would want to deliberately enter and then recover from a spin ?