Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!hplabs!sdcrdcf!curt From: curt@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Curt Dodds) Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Re: Advice on obtaining pilot's license Message-ID: <2295@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 11:47:06 EDT Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.2295 Posted: Thu Aug 29 11:47:06 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 1-Sep-85 04:42:57 EDT References: <360@tektools.UUCP> <489@cepu.UUCP> <434@sdchema.sdchema.UUCP> <283@gcc-bill.ARPA> Reply-To: curt@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Curt Dodds) Distribution: net Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica Lines: 16 Summary: In article <283@gcc-bill.ARPA> brad@gcc-bill.UUCP (Brad Parker) writes: >In article <434@sdchema.sdchema.UUCP> jpg@sdchema.UUCP (Jerry Greenberg) writes: >> I will confess why despite my interest in aviation I have'nt >>taken lessons. It can be summed up in two words: "stall" and "spin". > >With proper training and some good practice, neither one of these are >dangerous. In fact, spins are quite fun! > >I will, however, give you this one: inverted spins are no fun. At an airshow here in Oxnard, CA I watched Bob Herendeen perform an inverted FLAT spin having 24 turns. Obviously SOME people even enjoy inverted spins! S. Curt Dodds Programmers do it with bytes and nybbles.