Moggy, ENJOY :cool:. My son had a trial lesson in the Cub at Clacton and he was hooked, costing him dear now to get his PPL but it will give me a safety pilot if I ever need one.

I assume the Tripacer is private CoA rather than PFA Permit.

Worst case scenario.

You regularly fly a Mk IV Whatsit that is not cleared for intentional spinning because the spin characteristics could only be classed as ???***y. You are taking your overweight friend for a flight on a hot and humid day and will be landing at a strange airstrip that has an interesting approach. On route at a safe height you decide to check the stall as we all would – wouldn’t we! The stall deteriorates into an incipient spin that you do not catch in time and, having never spun before, you have already done a couple of rotations before even thinking how to recover.:confused: You are disorientated and the earth is spinning up towards you at an alarming rate and you come out of the spin one rotation too late.

In this scenario, would it not have been better to have had experience of spinning and spin recovery so that your reactions may have been quicker, disorientation less and come out of it with a couple of rotations in hand?:eek:

If a training aircraft is not cleared for intentional spinning then I suggest that an hour in one that is cleared should be compulsory.

The emphasis in training today is to know when a spin can happen and prevent it – prevention it better than cure. Having said that I agree with Avid Driver that there should be spinning experience during training. I agree that possibly some of the modern plastic aircraft would be dangerous to spin but they are not used for ab initio training. Spin in a Cessna 150 and you should come out safely. I learned in Cessnas and was taught not only how not to get in a spin but also how to get out of it (both directions) when I did.:confused: On bi-annuals I will insist that if the a/c is cleared for spinning then I want to spin. An alternative is to do a basic aerobatic course – I’m really in a spin now.

Hi Mixtec

You wrote:

It really depends on what you classify as an “aircraft”. :confused:

An aircraft is an aircraft weather it has a 2-stroke, flat-4, flat-6 or whatever. Apart from power and size what is the difference, they all fly. I have a fabric covered a/c with a Continetal C85 up front and that is my preference but it does not bother me that I have friends with Flexwings or a/c with a big radial up front, they have aircraft and they fly. We all have a similar interest.