[net.aviation] spin recovery

bl@hplabsb.UUCP (Bruce T. Lowerre) (09/12/84)

The latest issue of "Sport Aviation" has an article on an emergency
spin recovery technique in which it is not necessary to identify the
kind of spin (upright, inverted, flat, etc.) but only the direction.
For what it's worth, here it is.

        1) power to idle
        2) LET GO OF THE CONTROLS
        3) push full rudder opposite to spin
        4) when rotation stops, neutral rudder
        5) grab controls and recover from dive

I tried it in a 152, however the plane is so docile that as soon as I
let go of the controls the rotation stopped before I pushed opposite rudder.
If there are any aerobatic pilots out there who would like to try it in
an inverted spin, I'd be interested to know how it works.

	Bruce T. Lowerre, CFI

jfb@iuvax.UUCP (09/14/84)

That is the way I way taught to recover 12 years ago..  I have done it
in a 1772 and it works just fine.

MHARRIS@BBNF.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP (09/17/84)

Step 2 should read "LET GO OF THE STICK", not "LET GO OF THE CONTROLS".  A
minor but potentially troublesome point.  I've not tried it inverted, either.

--mh

hyde@ogcvax.UUCP (Bradley Hyde) (09/26/84)

Letting go the controls in a Champ (7AC) would do you no good!
On my first spin the most terrifying thing was the lack of any
stick pressure! (Plus the impression that I was going straight
down at high speed.)  However, upon applying opposite rudder,
having the stick pulled into my gut (I *WAS* scarred) the pull-
out was VERY abrupt.  My instructor strongly suggested that in
future I be more gentle of the air frame on pull-out.
    My ground instructor would do 4 rotations in the Champ before
recovering.  For me, getting into and out of a spin was bad enough.
    My spins were sloppy (it was the only thing I did that made
my instructor sick).
B. Hyde (Intel)