MERGED: Coffs Harbour Chipmunk Crash
Rounsounds,
To this day, in Australia, I still find the failure to RTFM very common, and what really gets me is when CASA FOIs issue direction not in conformity with the POH/AFM -- some of them just plain dangerous.
So it is not surprising that industry respect for and adherence to manufacturer's SOPs is often conspicuous by its absence.
Tootle pip!!
To this day, in Australia, I still find the failure to RTFM very common, and what really gets me is when CASA FOIs issue direction not in conformity with the POH/AFM -- some of them just plain dangerous.
So it is not surprising that industry respect for and adherence to manufacturer's SOPs is often conspicuous by its absence.
Tootle pip!!
- disappointing that they don't bother to read the book by Gene Beggs with many of the limitations of that technique
- one expert criticised me for claiming that there were some spin modes for the Decathlon where it would not work (also mentioned by Beggs) and, of course, he had never tried it in a Decathlon himself
- one expert learnt the hard way when one of his students discovered that indeed it does not always work
I show that ATSB Chipmunk spin report to all of my instructor trainees. Disappointing that the ATSB treated the problem as being peculiar to just a few instructors at one flying school at the time however, as LeadSled suggests, the problem is quite widespread and systemic. I encounter too many instructors who ignore the bold text in roundsounds' Feb 2016 post; too many who don't bother to read the AFM.
PS: still waiting for CASA to rewrite CAAP 155-1, Aerobatics, after Part 61.
