Six numbers Mr 'BA'....just six little numbers.......

Cheers:ok:

I'm sure my ERSA would have a similar effect, less blood, bruising, and easy to get at.

Hey guy's

Just thought I'd give you all an update. Ive been studying at Whitworths for about 3 weeks now & I had my first Stall lesson today. It was great fun and really wasn't as bad as it was made out. The Warrior didn't really want to stall so I really had to pull back to get it going. Recovering from it was easy enough, letting the control collumn go seemed to be enough. I was abit nervous but towards the end I was enjoying it, maybe abit too much. Thanks for all the help and advice you all gave.

Happy Landings

Bill
 

Remember SPL neither Bill or any of his Instructors will let you get them into any position they can't recover from, if they can then they will teach you how to do the same. I can still remember all the hypo abt Stalls & Spins , they grow on you, you will learn to love'm.

Did some spin recovery as part of the instructor course.

INSANE!

I had done aerobatic 'spins' as part of the endo but nothing like these ones. Let go of the controls and watch it go haha they were great fun. Very strange to feel an aircraft moving about quite rapidly with the needle firmly planted on the ASI at zero in the left spin.

As far as stalling goes, I had my reservations when I first started training thats for sure. Thought about stopping because of an incipient spin! Just couldn't handle them or even the thought of them.

A bit of practise and being voluntarily thrown in the deep end with the aero's cleared that right up :8 I found it really helped to know what you can put an aircraft through before being completely comfortable throwing one around, but of course it's a bit of a catch 22 because you don't know unless you get in and do it!

You'll be fine, glad to hear you got through the first of your stalls without issue.

Hi M14

Yep, I have ratings in the chippy, tiger and harvard.

I did the tiger first and spin recovery certainly was gentle. The procedure for the chippy is the same (full opp rudder, pause 1 second, smoothly push forward, rotate stop, centre rudder, ease out of dive, blah, blah.)

What did surprise me with the chippy was the real push that was required. At the end I was using both hands and really shoving her, and then having to go close to vertical to get a good recovery. In the RAF handling notes, there is a comment that in some cases, spin recovery is not possible - maybe a really aft c of g?

My tiger has the spin stakes fitted. These were fitted during the war, when it was discovered that in some cases the tiger didnt want to recover. Apparently it was really to do with the bomb racks that were fitted to some of them at the time. I have left them on for originality, but have never had any concerns)

Watching Dave Phillps routine in the tiger - there is a pilot who can spin a tiger well!!

Oh, and yes, the chippy is the nicest balanced aircraft that I have flown!

I have been fortunate enough to have logged 1.5hours in a Mk IX spitfire, and in the circuit, once it had slowed up, it felt just like the chippy in terms of control harmonisation, just a bit heavier (and delightfully weird with the spade up near chest height)