Puchacz fatal accident 18 Jan. 2004 at Husbands Bosworth.

Uzytkownik "Andreas Maurer" napisal w wiadomosci
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On 14 Jan 2005 16:13:14 GMT, Andrew Warbrick
wrote:

Have you ever spun one?


Until now I have not even seen a Puchacz in real life - but the sheer
number of spin accidents with experienced pilots suggests that
something is wrong, don't you agree?

Why doesn't it surprise me? Most of the pilots who write the worst opinions
on Puchacz never have flown it, or even seen it.

I don't think this is the problem. A typical Puchacz spin accident has
the instructor onboard, and I'm pretty sure that most of these
instructors knew about the correct spin recovery procedure.

I think that they're often crashed in spins just because they're most often
used ships for spin training. Just because they spin in a textbook way and
need a textbook recovery to get out of a spin, not only 'releasing the
stick' just like the Bocian or Junior.

Here in Germany we also had our share of Puchacz spin accident. One
was a successful spin recovery that went into an opposite spin - the
IP was not able to recover the second spin before impact.

Maybe they were too surprised by the fact that the glider entered another
spin due to inproper recovery action that they had lost a little bit too
much time.

Regards,


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