Anyone remember the falling leaf? As you approach
the stall you can visibly move the nose side to side
using the rudder without aileron. This will advance
one wing over the other, and vice versa. Pressing on
the opposite rudder is one way of stopping the incipient
spin and turning it into a straightforward stall; it
does so by advancing the inside wing and thus lowering
its angle of attack and raising the angle of attack
on the opposite wing.

A little top rudder can be used to help keep the nose
from dropping in a turn. It is this nose drop that
produces the acceleration and consequent spiral dive.
I've never tried opposite rudder and stick back to
see if it would stop a spiral dive. Conceptually it
might, but the acceleration is too fast and the wings
might be shed before thee control inputs could stop
it. You already know how to stop it - level the wings.
That wasn't the question.


At 14:48 25 August 2005, wrote:
Let my try this again with contacts in my eyes. You
can also enter a
spiral dive out of a spin. I was spinning a 2-32 one
day and during
the 4th spin of the flight, normal spin recovery inputs
were not
working. The visual picture that the same as on the
other spins,
however, after a few moments of the spin recovery inputs
I noticed that
the airspeed was increasing. I leveled the wings and
recovered from a
redline dive.

Craig