Spiral dive up to vNE (CPL instruction)
Hi,
the current EASA NPA for flight training (NPA 2014-29) requires (among other things) "Flight at critically high airspeeds, including recognition of and recovery from spiral dives".
The AMC elaborates: "flight at critically high airspeeds (approaching VNE) and recognition of, and recovery from, spiral dives. These manoeuvres are often combined; the examiner may put the aeroplane into a steep dive or a spiral dive with speed increasing rapidly and hand control to the candidate to initiate appropriate recovery action either to straight and level flight or into a climb."
This appears to ruffle some feathers outside the UK (deeming it a too dangerous maneuvre to carry out).
As the current Flight Examiners Handbook and the Standards Document also have this requirement (and VERY similar wording), I am curious what the experience of the UK FI and FE are regarding training and testing the spiral dive with approach to vNE on a regular basis.
How do you do it? Do you know how old this requirement is in the UK?
Any accidents associated with the spiral dive manoeuvre?
Thomas