How to Recover from a Spin Video – Catherine Cavagnaro

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Episode 155 ThumbnailI'm excited about a new video I just posted of my interview with Dr. Catherine Cavagnaro. In it, Catherine talks about some of the debunked theories of lift that some flight instructors still talk about and then about how lift really works. She explains stalls and then shows videos that show how a skidding stall is more dangerous than a slipping stall. These stall/spins often happen in the traffic pattern as pilots are turning from base to final, especially if they have a tailwind on base and overshoot the turn to final. Adding extra rudder to try to “speed up the turn” often results in a fatal stall/spin accident. Pilots should instead add power and go around.

Catherine then talks about spin recovery and how spin recovery differs among airplanes. Therefore, you need to read the POH for your airplane, so that you understand the best technique for recovering from a stall in that airplane. If your POH doesn’t include a spin recovery information, then you may want to use the acronym PARE, which is:

Power to Idle
Ailerons Neutral
Full Opposite Rudder for the direction of the turn
Elevator Forward
Then as the aircraft recovers, pull back on the elevator to level off.

Plus, you'll see all of her videos that we talked about during the interview. They include early smoke tunnel research on lift, views of yarn tuffs on her airplane as it stalls and spins in different configurations, and wake turbulence demonstrations. Just click on the image to view the video, or you can find it at: https://youtu.be/JMMgJ5AhK-o
 
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