Spins

"Matt W. Barrow" wrote in news:7NLjj.9678
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"Jim Logajan" wrote in message
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
wrote:
Does anyone know why the FAA ****e-canned the spin recovery
demonstration requirement in the PTS? Was it fear of litigation
(since
a spin might lead to a crash, after all)?


No, it was because the figured they were losing more in spin
training
than they were in accidental spins.
In the late fifties, I think.

Just FYI, Rich Stowell considers that reason a likely myth, as he
writes
he

http://www.apstraining.com/article10...ning_sep03.htm

Of the aerobatic schools that continue to do spin training he notes
that
during the course of ~250,000 spins, there were 0 fatalities over the
period studied. In the above link he quotes the reasons given for
rescinding spin training in the 1949 CAR Amendment 20-3 and notes
that
spin
training accidents were not mentioned as a reason.

Apples and Oranges? I'd say there's a major difference between
aerobatic
training and regular PPL training.


No, if spins were more thoroughly understood by the pilot population and
instructors in particular, there's no reason why they couldn't be taught
to the same standard as in the aerobatic schools.

Bertie