Comments on: 26 Turn Flat Spin in a Tipsy Nipper

By: TheCorsican

TheCorsican — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:01:16 +0000

Thanks for posting this video. I’m just starting doing aero and I learned quite a bit from this video.
Glad you’re keep it on youtube as I will revisit a few times. cheers!!!

By: neverdullboy

neverdullboy — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:02:37 +0000

Moobradidi, Why don’t you put down your Playskills logbook, and your plastic Captain’s hat and wings that you won when you logged 100 hours playing flight simulator. Then, go to your local FBO, and dig deep in your tighty-whiteys for your man parts. If you find anything at all, sign up for flight lessons. Until then, your just another asswife, with a big mouth. This guy is lucky to be alive, and the video may save lives.

By: CR4ZYHOR5E

CR4ZYHOR5E — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:19:17 +0000

Glad you’re okay. I think that having the video on here is a good thing. Good luck, safe flying.

By: EpicMc1

EpicMc1 — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:07:17 +0000

With reference to removing this video, my personal opinion is that it should remain on this website, purely to educate those who fail to consider the consequences of spin entry.

By: goncstube

goncstube — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:27:22 +0000

Hi,
To get the engine turning again needs a much higher speed.
The use of pro’ spin aileron, rapid rudder input and operating the a/c with the CofG close to the rear limit was enough to make the spin go flat immediately.Normally full power with up elevator and out-turn aileron is needed to get an erect spin to go flat.

By: goncstube

goncstube — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:13:14 +0000

You were not there,you have your own interpretation of the situation and timing of decisions and are very vocal at airing them.The video stays,as from feedback via this column and other forums it has done exactly what I had hoped:open discussion and awareness of flat spins and recovery.You don’t know me,fame is not what the video was posted for.I have admitted my mistakes,but I will be buggered if I am going to be bullied by a very self opinionated and vocal “expert”.

By: mvp2014

mvp2014 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:12:40 +0000

why didn’t the prop start spinning once he got out of the stall and dropped the nose? also some clarification on what he did to get it into a flat spin from a regular spin?

By: moobradidi

moobradidi — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:19:08 +0000

I also note from the TV vid that you were looking for a cheap plane for aeros. In aviation cheap usually means dangerous and in aeros it usually means death. If that ground had been harder (you said there was water off yr crashed left wingtip) then u might already be dead. If your firewall fuel tank had cracked u would be very crispy. If u had inverted in shallow water u cld have drowned. Get a real aero a/c, a chute, some advanced training & u might live. But no more BS “there i was..” videos.

By: moobradidi

moobradidi — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:12:32 +0000

You would be best served removing this video because it does not encourage pilots to use the right tools and processes for aerobatics. It is a thinly veiled piece of exhibitionism designed to make you look like a gifted pilot whereas you lack the airmanship that would have prevented this crash in the first place. Chuck Yeager said “All aiplanes kill fools” & you are one lucky fool who just won’t admit his foolishness. I see u still fly this plane with no chute/BRS or restart ability. Brilliant.

By: moobradidi

moobradidi — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:06:47 +0000

Real story: U fluked exiting the spin, looked ahead, saw no hope, turned left as most pilots instinctively would and took what you had (zero). For 20 mis u were trapped in a crashed, inverted a/c that could have been leaking fuel and you wouldn’t know until the bang. Must have been a lot of fun, strapped in waiting to burn. This is not an educational video since it educates us to use wrong planes with wrong capabilities without safety marginsa and then seek notoriety rather than accept idiocy.