Jim Stewart wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote:
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.

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

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

I can't speak for your field, Dudley, but in mine
I have to deal with electrical engineers that have
never touched a soldering iron and CS grads that
have never coded in assembly language.

I know. We have a son who was a high level head hunter for a major
company dealing with the hiring of computer science grads on the Masters
level who needed remedial training in basic algebra to go on the job.

--
Dudley Henriques