I agree with Colin, I f you have never done spins? get an instructor and
do some. Hen I was learning to fly, I had a problem with stalls in steep
turns, i always got into a spin or spiral so i got spin training. When a
friend went to take his check ride the check piolet ask have you ever
done a spin? the answer was No so his check ride was an hour of nothing
but spins and this is when the FAA didnot require you to do spins.
Aerobatic flying would be good for all of use because in a vortex you get
rolled upside down and most of us cannot recover fron that at a low
altitude wher we are most lickly to encounter that.
my .02 cents worth for what evwr it worth?
jim
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:07:45 -0500 "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net>
writes:
> As always, it's nobody's place to second guess anybody's flying
> skills under
> these circumstances, but the spiral into the gulf thing certainly
> lends a
> clue to what happened. I'm not much of a pilot, but I did do
> something this
> weekend that I hope will keep me out of the stall/spin statistic
> book. I
> read the book "Stick and Rudder" from cover to cover, and it made me
> realize
> that there's a lot that I didn't (and still don't know) about
> flying.
>
> After reading that book, I now have a much better understanding of
> why
> planes do what they do when the controls are used in every
> conceivable way,
> and I feel like I should now have a much better chance of avoiding
> that
> predicament. I've known about this book for 30 years (originally
> written in
> 1944, and revised several times), but I think finally buying and
> reading it
> may very well save my life in the near future (at least I hope so).
> I
> highly recommend that if you don't have it yet, buy it and read it.
> It's
> sold just about everywhere aviation is spoken. It makes it clear
> how even
> experienced pilots get bitten by this snake, and how to avoid it...
>
> Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama
> see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
> email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
>
>
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