Originally Posted by
Big Pistons Forever
Re spins and the Cirrus
This is the report from a Crash in Canada
Transportation Safety Board of Canada - Aviation Investigation Report A10W0155
The airplane spun in and killed 3. Of note is that at the time of impact the rotation had stopped and the aircraft was pitching up. However when the aircraft departed from controlled flight the aircraft was well within the CAPs envelope for a successful deployment.
It would seem to me that if the pilot had followed the POH procedure and pulled the big red handle it is highly likely there would be 3 less dead people and the aircraft might have even flown again.....
It would also seem, to me, that had the pilot kept AoA below alpha-crit, and/or the aeroplane had sufficiently benign stalling characteristics with no tendency to spin, that there would be nothing to discuss.
The issues, to me, concerning survival of a spin from circuit height, are all about why the aeroplane was spinning in the first place - everything after that is to a fair extent, detail.
G