As part of my PPL I was looking forward to learning about spin recovery. When I asked my instructor when we was going to do this lesson, I was surprised that he replied that it is no longer in the syllabus.
This gave me some worry, if I was flying alone in the plane and got myself into a spin I would have no knowledge about how to go about recovering it and would pretty much be left to go spinning to the ground. Obviously I would do my best to recover but having the proper knowledge is better than guessing!
As this is something that I wanted to learn about, I decided to look online for information about spin recovery and the process you need to use to recover. I then came about this great video on YouTube that explains it all and shows you the process.
The video is from an American instructor but a plane is a plane so of course it will be applicable to everyone.
From what I can see to recover you do the following things.
- Power to idle.
- Ailerons to neutral.
- Apply opposite rudder.
- Push the nose down
- Recover as normal once you have straight and level flight.
I feel this is important knowledge even if it is not in the syllabus!
Happy landings everyone.
