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Old 1st Nov 2011, 22:29
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Just wondering. How many CAPS deployments in recent years were done due to inadvertent spins? I can't remember any, but then again I'm not keeping a detailed track of this.

The deployments I can remember were mostly loss-of-control in IMC and in one instance an incapacitated pilot whose wife deployed the CAPS instead of risking to fly the aircraft to a landing.

In any case, the place where you are most likely to spin due to mishandling is somewhere on base/final and in that situation both spin training and CAPS has a value of exactly zero.
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