The Only Spin Flight Video You'll Ever Need

In today's video Megan (Assistant Chief Pilot) and Eric (CFI Student) will show you the proper procedure when performing spin recovery maneuvers for your CFI Training towards your checkride.
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[@cookingwithcuyandotherfuns6238]

Excellent video Megan! I wish spin training would be required for all private ratings and not just the CFI rating. Excellent video angles and editing. Nicely done!

[@v1switch]

Highly recommend spin training. An important confidence tool.

[@fzakrzewski]

You can do spin training as a private pilot student - you only have to wear a parachute while doing it with your CFI But I agree, I'd be happy if it was a part of requirement, and not my own requests : )

[@weskokaa1632]

@@fzakrzewski In Canada, spin training is apart of your PPL. I just did mine yesterday and it was only my 3rd flight. You absolutely do not wear a parachute nor have one in the plane

[@patrickcoleman3]

Just a matter of getting in touch with a Aerobatic training school, and make sure your in the left hand seat.

[@CorbinAviation]

Megan is so calm and soothing. This is the only person I want to do spins with.

[@stevenSorge-ks1jc]

It’s great that you did a falling leaf. So few teach that. Your commemt later on about airspeed building in the spin, indicated it’s not a spin but a spiral. In a pin airspeed stabilized at or below the stall IAS

[@abtechgroup]

Good video - some pilots stop their training in Canada for their private at this point as spins are required in the training and it freaks them out - but they should all view this video to see its no big deal. Great job.

[@txkflier]

Spins are way more exciting in a 150/152. They get so vertical that you can see where you'd hit the ground..

[@CocoEspada]

That was fantastic. I’ll be starting my CFI training here soon so good to see what I’ll be experiencing.

[@ThrustFlight]

We'll see you around!

[@weskokaa1632]

Nothing like the feeling of turning a plane into a roller coaster!

[@timjohnson1578]

this should be taught greater with students these days! Great video !!! Thanks for the info and perspectives.

[@johnscherer5380]

I instructed in the Cessna T-37 for 1,000 hours. Bold face (memory item) for spin recovery was: 1. Throttles idle. Why not have throttles idle as the first step in the recovery in your C-172? Colonel John Scherer, USAF (ret) ATP/CFII SMEL

[@ronbennett5591]

Brilliant video . Well done . Can I ask a question please (unless I missed something else ) Why does the student not sit in P1 as in the UK . Not a criticism just a question . Well done again

[@tonyl9051]

Over the radio, I heard the call sign of the Cessna that I'm training with.... LOL

[@roy4091]

Back in 1995, when i was taking lessons, teaching spins was stopped. I don't remember the reason, but i do know it wasn't a requirement. I'm guessing that has changed?

[@jimmycasas]

Hopefully never will need it but GOOD to know.

[@MajorCaliber]

Spin-recovery training had ALWAYS been a part of PPL training and had to be demo'd during the FAA check ride for same... until about 1978, when GAMA lobbied to have it removed... which resulted in A) more under-qualified peeps getting their PPL; B) more under-qualified peeps buying GA aircraft; C) more under-qualified peeps (and their friends and families) dying in stall-spin accidents! Of course GAMA was only interested in B... and The American Bar Association has been thanking them ever since!

[@Cosme422]

I so wish the primary flight display was being recorded at the same time for all these videos.

[@MonteD1]

So, I learned that it's harder to keep it spinning than it is to recover.

[@karhukivi]

True in modern aircraft, not true in older aircraft or high-performance aerobatic aircraft! The problem is that the recovery is counter-intuitive and has to be learned, or at least the immediate reaction to an incipient spin has to be practised. An untrained person who gets into a spin unintentionally will usually follow their instincts, do the wrong thing, and crash.

[@patrickcoleman3]

I used to spin a Beagle Pup and we had to bolt a 90lb steel plate on the tail to make it spin.

[@karhukivi]

@@patrickcoleman3Where was the CofG with that in place?

[@patrickcoleman3]

I never did a weight and balance on the Beagle just took the advice of the LAME who owned it, fantastic aircraft to do aeros in had a quite big control stick. @@karhukivi

[@gogogeedus]

unless it's a twin!

[@NeedtoSpeak]

I like that you acknowledge most student pilots may get airsick from these maneuvers. Not doing so may cause a student pilot to stop their flight training.

[@jarrettspeith3936]

Dude, She is the rock star of instructors,....

[@carltonstidsen8806]

Whatever happened to the requirement for parachutes during intentional Spins ? Also - every 172 I've ever been in has been placarded against intentional spins ? Is the example 172 beefed up somehow ?

[@YellowCucumber]

Not sure what 172’s you’ve been flying but every 172 I’ve flown can be spun if the weight and balance is in the utility category

[@mitchellfamily3899]

"builds up too much airspeed" while spinning??? If you're building up airspeed, you are no longer stalled, as such, you are no longer spinning. Am I'm confused? Would you mind rolling into a 45 degree turn, full bottom rudder, full opposite aileron, full aft elevator, power on? This is the common situation where a spin occurs.

[@igclapp]

She was referring to the high speed encountered in the dive after stopping the spin.

[@Kaipeternicolas]

Fun!

[@patrickcoleman3]

For a start what are you doing in the left hand seat if your instructing? also regarding please train your students with spin direction inputs using turn and balance wing down equals spin direction most useful in cloud, spin recovery is really easy but you must train them for a spin in cloud or NVFR when they are disoriented as long as you know spin direction and dont step on the ball.

[@karhukivi]

She is demonstrating not instructing. A VFR pilot who spins in cloud will not have enough instrument training to recover from the spin on instruments.

[@patrickcoleman3]

@@karhukivi That's what I`m talking about, your turn indicator is your main spin recovery instrument so teach them how to use it.

[@karhukivi]

@@patrickcoleman3 The eyes for a VFR pilot surely! They can see which way they are spinning.

[@txkflier]

I was taught to use the turn coordinator to recover from unusual attitudes. If you've learned to do that instinctively, you can recover from an IMC spin as well.

[@patrickcoleman3]

@@txkflier The turn Indicator is the only no vacuum or spun instrument you can rely on actually when all others fail.

[@ChrisA-o6r]

Very impress with instructor

[@ivorharris4200]

Sorry but the demonstrated spin entry is completely the WRONG way to demonstrate/teach spin entry, particularly for the purpose of spin recognition/prevention! (and recovery of course). Spin entry should only be demonstrated/taught off a slow over-ruddered (ie stalled and skidded) gliding turn....THE WAY SPIN ACCIDENTS HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE! As the tiger moth instructors used to drum into their students' heads "Don't stall and skid in a gliding turn, or for sure you'll crash and burn!". You can also turn this demonstration very nicely into a spiral dive by just relaxing the back pressure on the stick a fraction as the incipient spin transitions to a full spin, which allows good recognition of the distinguishing features of a spin and a spiral dive.

[@sendasantiguas4313]

Agree!!

[@jimstallings5601]

Sorry but good luck with that in a 172. It already doesn’t want to spin and you will never develop a spin with that technique.

[@Bob-sk6xq]

Especially turning base to final when they overshoot. They use rudder and pull which are the perfect conditions to stall spin into the ground.

[@SpiralDiving]

i don't think that 1 turn is a fully developed spin but provably Ok to hone recovery technique.

[@cjoller2701]

My trainer - so we’re going to force it into a spin… you ready? Me - FK NO! I will never be ready to intentionally make the thing spin. If the aircraft doesn’t wanna do it, there’s a reason!

[@camo6344]

Australian light sports goes to the point of stall then recovers we don’t go full spin our planes are not certified for spinning

[@Cosme422]

Great video but no music needed please on these videos. It’s hard to focus on the video when I’m trying to listen to the music at the same time. 😢

[@carltonstidsen8806]

Since when did instructors give instruction from the left seat ? Once the muscle memory for right seat sets in , now the student has to switch hands and do everything with the other hand when they change to the left seat .

[@jw605]

I'd imagine this is CFI training so the "student" is actually in the right seat as that's where he would be when he becomes qualified to instruct.

[@JSFGuy]

Extra 300L never hurt.

[@aero3085]

What would happen if 1700rpm, full aft yoke, full left rudder, full left yoke?

[@karhukivi]

You will spin to the left, or perhaps go into a left-hand spiral if not stalled!

[@jackmcelroy3123]

The aircraft number she kept using was not the airplane they were flying...

[@rapinncapin123]

That = no bueno

[@danieladdo1588]

Are the chances of a student throwing up in spin higher

[@blablabla1185]

Without the lake all of these is impossible to perform.

[@MajorCaliber]

Student in right seat, Instructor in left seat... new thing?

[@Coryclemmings]

Those stalls had my heart in my throat!!! N then it was completely out after he did his first spin. After his second, I started to feel better again. That’s insane!! N I want to b a commercial pilot 🤣🤣🥲🥲

[@chipcity3016]

Boss babe!

[@dwighttaylor5107]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤

[@TriangleChoke69]

Single engine piston, no parachute....good luck. What can go wrong?

[@igclapp]

Single engine piston is what you want for spin training. In a 172, it's unlikely anything will go wrong.