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Old 23rd May 2014, 21:41
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Adrian N
 
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Sure, pilots should learn how to recover from a spin. It's fun. However:

don't presume a handle is going to fix it.
Well, actually yes it is. The manufacturer, the FAA, EASA, and the certifying authorities in every other country where the Cirrus is approved all agree that the best way to recover from a spin with minimum loss of altitude is to pull the handle.

If you spend some time reading fatal accident reports for other aircraft, you come across case after case where pilots spun to the ground. They should have been able to recover, but as was pointed out above, if a pilot is bad enough to get into an accidental spin it's asking a lot for them suddenly to be good enough to recover from it. The penalty for being an incompetent pilot doesn't have to be death.

About the same amount as you waste in fuel lugging a brs around for 100 hours.
Is it really your considered opinion that "lugging a BRS around" is just a waste of fuel?
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