larry
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- Aug 5, 2002
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I had a student tell me on lesson two that I needed to keep my hands off the controls and let him fly more. He was not nice about it. The next lesson we go up in a C-172 and try some power off stalls 3000FT AGL. Once in the stall the left wing drops, he adds full right aileron, the nose drops, he yanks back on the yoke. The plane rolls over into a nice spin, and for those of you who couldn’t get a C-172 to stay in a spin when you tried, do it with flaps and it makes for a nice steady spin. The student is now holding full back pressure and opposite aileron in the spin and gasping for air, we are sinking at a pretty slow rate so I just say, “hmmm, I’m not supposed to touch the controls so why don’t you take out the flaps, put the ailerons to neutral, release the back pressure and apply rudder opposite the director of our rotation” The student is now hyperventilating and finally lets go of the controls (I think o cover his eyes) and of course the plane promptly pops out of the spin on its own. I got an e-mail two days later that he was not going to continue his training.