Blog – Spiral Dive Recovery 06/10/2024

Today was another of those “anything can happen” weather days but thankfully the squalls stayed away from the air field and I managed to get a spiral dive recovery session in with my FI.

The basic procedure is as follows:

Close the throttle
Use the ailerons to reduce the bank angle
Ease out of the dive using gentle back pressure
Once nose is above horizon, check speed & ease in the power as required

More on Spin Avoidance & Recovery can be read here.

After demonstrating a few of these to my FI we proceeded back to Hood. On the way my FI closed the throttle for a simulated engine failure.

As we were about 2 miles from the field, I closed throttle, set best glide speed and headed for the 24 downwind.

Once in the circuit I set up for landing by turning towards final and reducing speed by pitching up once on final to 60kts. This was finished off with a nice landing.

I then cleaned up the flaps and lights and stopped short of Bravo holding point to drop off my FI so I could do some more solo time…

Until next time…..

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Blog – Spiral Dive Recovery 06/10/2024