irwin@uiucdcs.UUCP (11/23/84)
Flat spins?? I have a twin goldgerg skylark that likes to flat spin. (Not all planes that I have flown will do one) The only way that I have been able to recover from the flat spin with the twin is low throttle, all controls neutral except elevator, which is set to full down. The full down seems to cup air under the horizontal stab, and will force the nose down so that some forward motion is gained. I found that aileron and rudder had no effect and that it took a few turns with full down before any response to that was noted. The first time it happened to me, I was high enough that I had time to try things. I recovered at about 20 feet and was expecting to see my aircraft rekitted. I went home and called up my friend who had been flying models for 15 years and told him the story. He said that if I had set my transmitter down and called him up, that he would have told me how to get out of it and laughed. When he was through with the joke, he said that what I did was the only way that he knows of to recover from it. I have since repeated it, and that always works for me with that craft.