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From: "Tom Gourley" <tom.gourley@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Down anywhere !!
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Don Skeele wrote:
"You know, I really don't know which of my steam/vacuum/electric gauges did 
much good.  I remember fighting the A/P, then dumping it, (this took a bit 
to scan and realize I was in deep caca), (probably 3 or 4 seconds), the 
gyro, understandably had tumbled, airspeed nil, turn coordinator pegged.. 
then  pulled power to idle, kinda neutralized the stick and aerilons, and 
tramped hard on the rudder the way that reduced the G forces, rotation 
stopped, airspeed built up and I rember my Spin insturctor impressing on me 
to pull out slowly"

I've never had spin training (but I will before I finish my Legacy) and the 
only spins I've been in were a few intentional ones riding with another 
pilot in his Decathalon several years ago.  I recently read an article 
titled "Spin Masters" in the August 2006 edition of AOPA Pilot magazine. 
One statement in the article really caught my attention.  In a spin (a real 
spin, not a spiral) "the ball will deflect to the side of the airplane in 
which the turn coordinator is located in the panel, away from the 
airplanes's center of gravity, regardless of the direction of the spin."

I don't recall ever being told that before.  That means if you spin in IMC 
you can't use the ball to tell you which rudder to step on.  That's 
something to remember.

Tom Gourley