PhantomCougar
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I did spin work yesterday morning to take care of my CFI 61.183(i)(1) sign off. Talk about alot of fun. 3 spins to the left, 3 spins to right, wish we could have done more just for fun. 2 turns and -1000 feet, pretty much everytime.
You have to really try to get a 150 to spin. Full rudder and full back pressure. And maintain that. Any easing up pretty much releases the spin or prevents it from starting in the first place. I think this is common knowledge for the 150 but what about other spin-approved airplanes?
Even tried to enter a spin from sloppy airplane control. A power-on stall with no rudder to control yaw and all it really did was drop the left wing and then 500 feet and changed heading 120 degrees to the left. Recovered on its own by releasing control pressure. No spin.
Tried a cross controlled base turn to final stall (at altitude) and no spin.
Of course our resident test pilot has youtube video of this in a 172.
Then tried to simulate flying IFR after the last spin using the tumbled AI for pitch and bank reference. I think we were in a 25 degree nose up attitude with full power and 40 degrees of bank before the AI was leveled. Almost an accelerated stall until I leveled off visually.
Anyone here ever get a spin to reverse direction by over doing the rudder action to stop the initial rotation? Kirshener says it can be done.
You have to really try to get a 150 to spin. Full rudder and full back pressure. And maintain that. Any easing up pretty much releases the spin or prevents it from starting in the first place. I think this is common knowledge for the 150 but what about other spin-approved airplanes?
Even tried to enter a spin from sloppy airplane control. A power-on stall with no rudder to control yaw and all it really did was drop the left wing and then 500 feet and changed heading 120 degrees to the left. Recovered on its own by releasing control pressure. No spin.
Tried a cross controlled base turn to final stall (at altitude) and no spin.
Of course our resident test pilot has youtube video of this in a 172.
Then tried to simulate flying IFR after the last spin using the tumbled AI for pitch and bank reference. I think we were in a 25 degree nose up attitude with full power and 40 degrees of bank before the AI was leveled. Almost an accelerated stall until I leveled off visually.
Anyone here ever get a spin to reverse direction by over doing the rudder action to stop the initial rotation? Kirshener says it can be done.