Turns, Stalls & Spins - Episode 4: How Elevator Aggravates a Spinning Airplane

[@ManualFlying]

It feels like im listening to a ground school lecture but Spencer is using all these proper terms and full sentences while demonstrating the maneuver!

[@paddy217125]

KZbin needed these videos. Thanks Spencer.

[@joemcmurray1172]

well done Spencer 🤙🏽 oh, I’m looking forward to seeing your beautiful red Pitts @ KSZP

[@flypaddyo]

Excellent Spencer!

[@merlinwiz2k]

Great video

[@scottspitler1443]

Spencer, Thank you for the well taught spin series. As a former USAF Pilot, we spun the T-37 always in a positive, upright manner. Having my eye on a Pitts Special, I’m much more interested in the inverted spins we never did in the jet. Your videos have been very informative. Well done! BTW, you were killing me with your Pitts Preflight video. 😝

[@ssairshows]

Thanks! Next week I'll be releaseing the inverted flat spin as part of this series. Of course I also have MANY inverted flat spin videos on the channel :-)

[@DavidButler-uy3ehHoover]

Great Spencer, thanks

[@josec4790]

Great video Spencer. Looking forward to your releases. I trained with Rich Stowell back in 2006 when I started flying and became very respectful of the proper use of the control surfaces. I’m in Florida and will look you up to do some training. Great job

[@Tglass]

Raise a glass of Suntori Toki to Spencer for these great videos!

[@ssairshows]

Indeed!

[@soaringaviation123]

Yes please! More good stuff! 👌🛫

[@loicb970]

Very interesting Video. Merci

[@golfbravowhiskey8669]

Cool series. Thanks.

[@paratyshow]

👍☑ Great Video Spencer, thanks for taking the time to do this!

[@ssairshows]

You are welcome!

[@martijn9568]

The way you seem to explain it spins are much more controllable than I assumed. Atleast in properly balanced airplanes.

[@ssairshows]

This is a certified plane flown within the CG and weight envelope so we expect all approved maneuvers to be controllable. Too many crashes happen because the pilot overloaded the plane and moved the CG behind the aft limit.

[@martijn9568]

@@ssairshows I was guessing something like that. You wouldn't want to try this in a C172 or 737 (Not sure about spin characteristics on jet aircraft)

[@mikeschultze3135]

Question: When I was training with my instructor we would go from positive spin directly into inverted, but if recovery was too fast, the plane would go to inverted spin. Watching your video I think maybe we just pushed forward stick. Any idea? It's been 30 years but training stuck like glue. If you pulled back to hard you could snap perhaps into a inverted spin. We did these many times but inverted was difficult detecting direction of recovery. I'm probably mixing different training segments... The other was on a hammerhead at top using opposite incorrect control inputs put you into a wild ride. I think more of a snap roll. We always briefed before flight and did research. Finally, the instructor had me record my voice while inflight doing manuvers. The time lag in voice compared to actually doing the manuver was interesting. I needed to practice talking slower 😉

[@ssairshows]

Thanks for the questions. If you push the stick to far forward past neutral but not all the way forward after putting in the recovery rudder you will enter an accelerated inverted spin. As far as pulling back the stick in a spin...that is an upright spin, always. Some people confuse the oscillations at the incipient phase of the spin for being inverted. At the top of a hammerhead if you use right rudder the plane will eventually spin to the right and depending on stick position it could be upright or inverted but that is not a snap roll...and you have to be really patient for a spin to develop and then just hooks up suddenly.

[@mikeschultze3135]

@@ssairshows Thanks so much for the clarification. Really appreciate your videos.

[@feralchimp]

“some pilots find this rather alarming” 😎

[@pittss2c601]

I just don't like that transition from positive to negative spins. It just doesn't feel right. So hard to get used to as a pilot. It feels wrong.

[@ssairshows]

Since it's done on purpose by the pilot....don't do it if you don't like it ;-)

[@sganzerlag]

Why you no fly manly airplane?!? Why now fly girlie plane?!? What happen?!?