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Old 28th Sep 2017, 16:41
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BEagle
 
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On the Gnat, we were briefed a form of recovery rather than having any incipient spinning demo.

There were 2 yaw dolls' eyes, but no turn and slip (or turn co-ordinator )

I think it went something like:

'Boot the black' (Rudder towards the black doll's eye)
'Punch the white' (Control column towards the white doll's eye)
'Set 6° nose-up' (Move control column to achieve 6° nose-up on the tailplane incidence gauge)
'Leave the throttle where it is'
'Wait...and hope!'
'When the music stops, recover from the dive'
'If it hasn't recovered by the briefed height, punch out immediately'

Forgiving little beast providing it wasn't provoked - centralising and waiting was often sufficient. As it was when I once saw more AoA than IAS in an F-4...

I only spun in the Hawk T1 once during my refresher course - it was a very 'canned' exercise with a choreographed entry procedure and was rather a waste of time. "Unload for control" was much simpler!

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