I heard of one being test-flown by a gentleman who was certainly not too
light. Apparently it recovered on it's own and he only had to pull out
of the dive...

In message , Paul Remde
writes
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
...
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


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