Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ogcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!tektronix!ogcvax!hyde From: hyde@ogcvax.UUCP (Bradley Hyde) Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Re: spin recovery Message-ID: <418@ogcvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Sep-84 13:40:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ogcvax.418 Posted: Wed Sep 26 13:40:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Sep-84 06:45:57 EDT References: <2503@hplabsb.UUCP> Organization: Oregon Graduate Center, Beaverton, OR Lines: 13 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)