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Old 28th Sep 2017, 14:37
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wiggy
 
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When I was a QFI at Manby we went to some Lightning units to refresh pilots on spin recovery techniques
FWIW I had the secondary duty of running "Spinexs" out of CFS in the late 80s ...at that time we certainly spun the Lightning folks at Binbrook and UK F4 crews ( front and back seat), don't recall any Tornado spinning.

The F4 recovery certainly didn't have much commonality with that used on the JP so we got the guys to recite their recovery actions whilst we did the handling.....that sometimes had it's interesting moments since we had approval to use "out spin" aileron to get an oscillatory spin going...I think it was a bit of an eye opener for those who had trained on the JP and expected something quite benign.

I used to enjoy going off and doing them, and hopefully our victims had a bit of fun as well....with a bit of coaching I had more than one F4 navigator fly pretty much the whole detail apart from the rotational bit!!!!
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