Diana
Final Approach
Had some spin training today in a Citabria. I learned a lot, even more doing actual hands on than riding along with my personal “spin mentor"
After three turns I started to get dizzy, by the fourth turn I could see how easy it would be to forget things and lose focus. I was surprised it took so long (one and a half turns) to recover from the first three turns. The Citabria was turning pretty fast by then. I wonder how you get over being dizzy; I don’t remember that before, but maybe it’s the altitude here?
The Citabria is so docile; I couldn’t get it into a cross-control spin, but tried twice. I guess we needed to use a bit of power to get it to happen?
I played with recovering at the beginning of the incipient stage when it hadn’t made a full rotation yet. That was also a good experience, to practice reacting to an inadvertent spin at that phase.
We ran out of time or would have done more spins. For fun we did a few aileron rolls on the way back in.
Had a great CFI and would book him for more spin training if I was going to be out here longer. I had asked him to talk me through every movement every step of the way, and am now ready to try it with him riding along, but not talking till I screw up. Still not ready to try them on my own yet. How do CFI’s determine when to give the OK to someone to do spins solo?
After three turns I started to get dizzy, by the fourth turn I could see how easy it would be to forget things and lose focus. I was surprised it took so long (one and a half turns) to recover from the first three turns. The Citabria was turning pretty fast by then. I wonder how you get over being dizzy; I don’t remember that before, but maybe it’s the altitude here?
The Citabria is so docile; I couldn’t get it into a cross-control spin, but tried twice. I guess we needed to use a bit of power to get it to happen?
I played with recovering at the beginning of the incipient stage when it hadn’t made a full rotation yet. That was also a good experience, to practice reacting to an inadvertent spin at that phase.
We ran out of time or would have done more spins. For fun we did a few aileron rolls on the way back in.
Had a great CFI and would book him for more spin training if I was going to be out here longer. I had asked him to talk me through every movement every step of the way, and am now ready to try it with him riding along, but not talking till I screw up. Still not ready to try them on my own yet. How do CFI’s determine when to give the OK to someone to do spins solo?