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Old 8th December 2012 | 13:29
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Armchairflyer
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Erm, what's wrong with taking it steady when driving on slippery roads?

Enjoy a dual spinning lesson, at least you'll make the experience that -- given enough altitude and an approved airplane -- it's actually a quite benign maneuver and nothing to be afraid of (at least that was my impression after having been in awe of the prospect of spinning an airplane myself prior to such a session with an aerobatics instructor).

Nonetheless I think that the actual safety gain is rather modest. A spin at altitude will hardly kill anyone, it's the low-level stall with a wingdrop where you instinctively feel that there is not enough air left beneath you to do what's right and point the nose down. It may be just me but I had a sufficiently hard time to do that when owing to a lack of concentration I let the airplane get into a slight mush on finals. Really had to give myself a mental slap on the hand to push the stick forward a bit and add some power instead of pulling back still further. And that was far from a panic-inducing situation then; not sure whether I would have been able to do the right thing if things had looked grimmer.

IMHO spin training is a good experience and helps you get rid of exaggerated fear. But in "everyday" flying it is indeed spin avoidance that gets you home alive.
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