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From: cfiaime@ihnp3.UUCP (Jeff Williams)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Advice on obtaining pilot's license
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Date: Wed, 28-Aug-85 16:49:38 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 28 16:49:38 1985
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>
>Let me also add here that a C-172 has to be really forced into a spin,
>and it is said that *MOST* general aviaition singles will get 
>themselves out of a spin if you let the controls loose.  I must admit
>I've not yet found the guts to test that statement.

The classic spin recovery is, of course:
	1.  Opposite rudder 1-2-3
	2.  Foreward stick 1-2-3
	3.  Recover

However, I have experienced FIRST HAND that a Cessna 152 will recover
itself from a spin.  I was teaching a young lady how to fly, and was
showing her the spin.  Whenever I spun, she would grab me and hold
on for dear life.  (We spun a lot...)  Anyway, it came time for her 
to try one, and she did the old "let go" routine after one turn.  The
old 152 came out of the spin in about 1/8 turn.

Also, Gene Beggs(?) has been touting a spin recovery where you hit
opposite rudder, and LET GO OF THE STICK.  It works well.  (See several
of the past issues of Sport Aviation.)  I have tried it in a 152, and 
it works.  Haven't had the guts to try it in the Starhawk.

					Jeff Williams
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