Blueskies wrote:


"Centurion" wrote in message
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BTW, you haven't lived until you've done accelerated stalls that
transition into accelerated spins! Hoo-har!!

James


About 1978, in a C-150 @ ~2500 agl under a cloud bank, student practicing
steep turns, and I notice he is trying to hold the nose up using top
rudder, with the ball off to the left. I also notice the speed decaying,
but I figure I'll let him get a little deeper in to it. The buzzer chipped
and over we go into a right snap roll and down into a spin. Piece of cake,
except this guy is bigger than I am and he froze up on the controls, yoke
back and spinning. I finally busted it loose from him and effected a
recovery, and when I checked the altimeter we were at about 800'. I
decided that I would not let students get that far out of shape anymore...

Yep - similar story for me, only student was climbing and trimming
for "constant back-pressure" instead of trimming out the control force.
I'd corrected him on a few flights, so thought I'd let it go and let him
see what happens. End up with the nose about 55-60deg pitch up, full power
and over it went. Student lets go of the controls and grabs me! So there
we are going round and round, down, down, down with full power. Shook him
off and recovered, but decided that accelerated spin training is probably
best left for later phases :P

You live and learn. If you do neither, you're dead.

James
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You will triumph over your enemy.