Re: spins from coordinated flight

Stefan wrote:

> Different approach. You, as a military pilot (as I think to have 
> understood), believe in the behavioristic approach. Me, as a scientist 
> (and amateur pilot) follow the cognitive approach. Your approach yields 
> pilots who exactly know what to do in this or that situation, but 
> probably without really understanding the deeper reasons. 

Well...I could say that your comment above is a deep personal insult 
(which it is BTW :-) but in this case I will respect the fact that you 
simply don't know anything at all about me since you have assumed I am a 
military pilot which as half the world knows couldn't be further from 
the truth.
I am in fact simply a civilian pilot who has flown military airplanes. 
It's as simple as that really....oh yes...there is one more 
thing....I've spent about 50 odd years directly involved with the flight 
training community as both a CFI and an adviser and consultant at levels 
ranging from primary training to teaching people to fly the highest 
performance airplanes in the world.

If you surmise that the people I have taught to spin airplanes "probably 
don't understand the deeper reasons" involved that YOU as a scientist 
can provide, or that the pilots I have trained don't know thoroughly the 
complete aerodynamics involved with spins, I fear you are in for a deep 
disappointment :-))

We just present these things when it is correct to present them and not 
when another explanation is the right explanation :-)

-- 
Dudley Henriques