spins, c of a, & regs

On 11/21/2011 08:02 AM, Dave Doe wrote:
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, crashdummy says...

just a curiosity question: is anything wrong, illegal, or dangerous in
entering a c150 into a spin at 9,000' and holding full elevator to
maintain it down to 2000 before recovering since spins are often
prohibited at lower altitudes?

Gee that sounds like fun! My spin instructors never liked spinning
*that* much. That said, only had two instructors that were into
teachign me spin recovery. It was not *manditory* when I did my PPL in
NZ - and don't believe it is still. However I think it's near essential
to learn - as well as a chitload of fun. I asked to do spin recovery
under the hood - which was a heap of fun too. And it was great to be
able to suceed in doing it.

Instructors are weird breed. I asked mine while doing my LAST hour of
dual way back when "how do you loop a 150"?

So he went on ranting about the regs not permitting loops, the school
not permitting loops, cessna not permitting loops and then

"but I damm well know you're gonna try anyway so I might as well show you"

So needless to say I did tons of long spins and (slow) loops for what
seemed like years.

Others have answered your questions about the plane - is it approved for
spinning etc. Only other comment is that it may not be that wise to
recover by 2,000'??? - I was always taught to recover by 3,000' AGL. I
guess that's really an instructor/club thing - and therefore where you
should direct your question.

You'll be spining with an instructor anyway right? (dual?).

Not likely, haven't flown anything except a mig29 sim for 10 years now
:-))))

If I were filthy rich I'd probably move some real sky around in a su-26
or ea-300L though ..only on Sundays. Couldn't handle a real mig or such,
my kidneys would fall off the hinges.

In NZ you'd
need to be approved for aerobatics (and that particular manoeuvre) to
spin solo.