Practicing Spins in a Cessna

July 18, 2010


Practicing Spins in a Cessna over Bozeman, MT in 2003. This was as part (at least indirectly) related to my procurement of a certificate. Makes me wish I could afford to keep flying.

Posted by roy | Filed Under Cessna 

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25 Responses to “Practicing Spins in a Cessna”

  1. FoulOwl on July 18th, 2010 1:54 am

    “Hey where did that 1000 ft go? It was there a second ago.”

  2. 3IDLukeK on July 18th, 2010 2:50 am

    i always get motion sickness during power on stalls, makes all the other manuevers unfun

  3. spudsmac0 on July 18th, 2010 2:59 am

    friggin Bozeman vor. I saw that too many times for the written test. haha

  4. myrandomspaces on July 18th, 2010 3:04 am

    8000 ft

  5. IRproductionstudios on July 18th, 2010 3:50 am

    howd your spin training go

  6. sideeways on July 18th, 2010 4:48 am

    I have this lesson tomorow. GOODLUCK TO ME! GREAT video!!

  7. Jcoetzee91 on July 18th, 2010 4:48 am

    Awsome… That was the best exercise ever!!!

  8. mtcaving on July 18th, 2010 5:23 am

    Not quite, I’ve seen them there, but it was with a private instructor and a personally owned aircraft.

  9. barfzap on July 18th, 2010 5:45 am

    Were you guys flting with Aero Flight School?

  10. pilotmanmax on July 18th, 2010 6:08 am

    Thanks:)

  11. BlogLegend on July 18th, 2010 7:07 am

    I was dreading it too but after my instructor took me through the first one, I couldn’t stop laughing. Went from dreading to saying, “one more!, one more!”

  12. KittyBoodles on July 18th, 2010 7:46 am

    This is neat to see from the outside view – I normally just see it from the inside. 🙂 I fly a Tomahawk, now those are a blast to spin! Good luck on getting your ticket. 🙂

  13. Racefangirl99 on July 18th, 2010 8:36 am

    I’m sure they’re fun, they look like it. But I’m scared to do it! I’m sure that I’ll like it though once I do it though. I’m all for this kinda crazy stuff, lol. It just takes some prodding to get me started.

  14. pilotmanmax on July 18th, 2010 9:09 am

    Yes he did a demo of a power on stall. I have a weak stomach though:P

  15. MrOpcode on July 18th, 2010 10:04 am

    They’re not that bad from the inside. Just remember not to yank the controls when coming out of the dive (when speed is above Va) or you might rip off the elevator =D. Did your instructor at least demo it for next lesson?

  16. pilotmanmax on July 18th, 2010 10:21 am

    Wow the the stall test I did today was enough! I am dreading this!

  17. gnarly001 on July 18th, 2010 10:34 am

    once you get to cfi school you get to do them

  18. McSpooner on July 18th, 2010 11:15 am

    hah!
    these things are SO much fun to do.
    we practiced these for my license training about 2 weeks ago and it blew me away

  19. MrOpcode on July 18th, 2010 12:07 pm

    Its part of the training, but not required during the flight test unless you’re doing Canadian CPL.

  20. gangstercrewowns on July 18th, 2010 12:44 pm

    makes me wish i had my pilots liscense

  21. mdidaho on July 18th, 2010 1:32 pm

    Great video

  22. ClancD on July 18th, 2010 1:56 pm

    Yeah they do look like fun. From what I know of stall recovery it’s pretty straight forward, as long as there is enough altitude between you and the ground…

  23. SkiAv8or on July 18th, 2010 2:16 pm

    They used to be required but they ended up killing more people than the training saved, Personally I think spins are fun, I’ve done them with my CFI

  24. ClancD on July 18th, 2010 2:39 pm

    If you are in the US then you aren’t required to do spins for your PPL, just spin awareness, which is basically just knowing how not to get into one.

    Just remember, when you are doing stalls, KEEP THE BALL CENTERED!

  25. BMWSkippy on July 18th, 2010 2:53 pm

    I took my pilots license and yes, Canadians are required to do spins. It happens around the five hours of flight mark.

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