Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Ricky wrote:
I was watching the 50-something spins done in a 152 on youtube and
it got me thinking;

I seem to remember being taught during commercial training that
spins do not greatly increase G forces on the airplane, is this
true?

I also remember being warned "no spin is exactly the same or
predictable, so DON'T do them solo! Was this just a warning from my
school so we wouldn't screw up their gyros or are spins indeed
possibly very dangerous inherently for some reason?

I would like to try some solo next time I'm up just for fun but may
take a willing CFI along (or fellow pilot) just in case.

Would 50-something spins compromise a Cessna 150 or 152's
structure?

Another thing I'd be concerned about was getting overly dizzy
beyond
a
handful of spins.

Ricky
Hi Rick;

I'm not trying to be confrontational here but I notice you are a
commercial pilot. I can't for the life of me rectify why you don't
know
the answers to the questions you are asking here. I find it
incredulous
that a commercial pilot could go through the process, then pass the
flight test and not know these answers.



Modern life!

To be fair, I wouldn't have known much about structures and G limits
when I got my commercial either. There's certainly nothing presented
in the syllabus that could be described as anything more than
rudimentary. The current trend is to tell pilots less and less about
how the airplanes they fly are put together. The last type rating I
did was just appalling.


Bertie

Again, I don't mean to be picking on the OP who innocently asked what
I'm sure he believes to be pertinent questions. My puzzlement is more
directed at the system that trained this pilot.

Likewise.


A commercial pilot who has to ask if a spin greatly increases the g
forces on an airplane?


Well, to be fair, it varies a bit

A commercial pilot who has to ask if spins are inherently dangerous?

Things CAN'T be THIS bad....or ARE they!!!!!!


Have been in some quarters for some time.. Most of the kids coming up as
FOs at my place have either never spun or have only seen them
demonstrated. Because of the other thread on it, I was talking with my
FO abou tit over dinner, and he told me that he had only had been shown
them oncece and that they had done three turns in a 172, but he thought
that the airplane must have been spiraling for the last few turns. I
told him that 172s are hard to get to go around more than about a half a
turn. He said that he queried it at the time, but was assured by the
instructor (at a big school that specialises in training airline piots)
that they were definitely spins..


Bertie