At 08:36 AM 9/13/2017, you wrote:
After reading about the incident where a KR2 pilot was killed when he deliberately put it into a spin, I searched everything on the web that I could find about spin prevention.
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I'm thinking the best spin prevention is airspeed. I never intend to intentionally spin my KR. It has very gently power off stall characteristics, gentle break, ailerons effective through the stall, and that's all I need to know. If I ever encounter a stall / spin I'll know at the time if it will recover. Intentionally spinning and finding it won't recover, that knowledge is of no value beyond the impact point. Not flight testing for stall / spin properly in a new aircraft can get you a change of address with a stone marker and no forwarding of mail. "Real test pilots" use two chutes for the test, one on the plane and one on their back. Enter that phase of testing with great caution.
Larry Flesner
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