Biig Pistons
To clarify to recover from a spin in the context of breaking an aeroplane is the point at which you stop the aircraft spinning. A dive or spiral dive are separate manoeuvres in their own right in which you can experience high speed high G in the recovery and where an aircraft can easily be broken. For the purpose off this discussion the two portions have to be separated.
You are unlikely to recover from a spiral dive or for that matter a dive at low level in the circuit but that is not an argument against students experiencing and learning how to deal with either?
How come spinning is different?
When you state that students don't realise that an aircraft is no longer spinning but has transitioned into a spiral dive that is very worrying concerning the quality of modern training methods ?
I am sure this argument between pro and anti spin training will go on for ever.
My advice to a late student or early PPL is take yourself off for a couple of sessions not so much as an aerobatic course but as an extreme handling course.
Pace
Last edited by Pace; 4th February 2011 at 07:34.