Hi Ian,

I have spun our club's Junior and have never seen those different cycles.
However, I weigh about 190 Lbs plus parachute. I'm sure the spin
characteristics are very different at different weights. I thought the
Junior spun aggressively, but I found it easy to exit the spin immediately
after multiple (I don't recall how many - maybe 3 or 4) rotations. I love
spinning gliders!

Best Regards,

Paul Remde

"Ian" wrote in message
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On 3 July, 12:38, Surfer! wrote:

BTW have seen folks allowed to fly the K21 solo without spin training,
but *not* the Juniors.

Juniors have a complicated spin mode which is generally three turns
nose down and recoverable, three flat and unrecoverable, rinse,
repeat. If you don't recover in the first three turns (Turn 1: ****,
better get the nose up. Turn 2: why didn't that work? Turn 3: What's
spin recovery again?) you just have to sweat it out for a few hundred
feet or your current altitude, whichever is less.

Ian