Inverted Flat Spin
12-11-2010, 06:44 PM
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Inverted Flat Spin
I flew the HET F-20 one day...and everything trims out nice, controls responsive, speed real good, then I was out pretty far....kinda lost my perspective...eyesight wasn't picking the plane up, and so I did what I always do...pull up. Watch which way the plane goes, so I can tell if I upright, inverted, sideways, what-have-you, when I wasn't picking up anything...well, I started to see a slow, spiral, fin down, and controls unresponsive.
I was lucky, cut throttle, and the nose dropped just enough, powered up (yes, toward the approaching ground) and finally got my elevator control back.
What causes this? The plane was like....floating....I knew I was in contact, because the throttle was responding. But that's it, for about 10-15 seconds.
How the heck did I get into a flat inverted spin to begin with?
I was lucky, cut throttle, and the nose dropped just enough, powered up (yes, toward the approaching ground) and finally got my elevator control back.
What causes this? The plane was like....floating....I knew I was in contact, because the throttle was responding. But that's it, for about 10-15 seconds.
How the heck did I get into a flat inverted spin to begin with?
12-11-2010, 07:49 PM
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RE: Inverted Flat Spin
That is probably the same question that Art Scholl was asking himself as he spun inverted into the Pacific back in 1985. I believe he was filming a sequence for the movie "Top Gun". I think he was in his Pitts Special, not one of his two Super Chipmunks. God rest his soul.
