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Old November 7th 08, 08:19 PM posted to rec.aviation.student,rec.aviation.piloting
Bertie the Bunyip[_28_]
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Default "26 Turn Flat Spin in a Tipsy Nipper"

bod43 wrote in
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On 7 Nov, 05:48, Jim Logajan wrote:
The following is a cockpit video from inside a "Tipsy Nipper" that
inadvertently enters a flat spin (at one point the pilot mutters
resignedly to himself "I think this is it"):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvbS-oHi9ro


Here is AAIB report:-

http://www.aaib.dft.gov.uk/cms_resou...0T.66%20Series
%203%20Nipper,%20G-ONCS%2003-08.pdf

Phew!


Holy ****. I've done a few under instruction, never on my own and really
only knew the canonical recoveries, the last of which saved this guy.
Really really cool to see it work in practice..


Bertie