Friday's Fantastic Flying Footage

Here is an outstanding spin video. Most videos are from inside the cockpit. This video, however, gives you both an outside and an inside view. They captured all the classic elements of the spin. In the first (outside view) you'll see the nose pitch up as the a/c bleeds off speed and enters a power on stall. When the a/c breaks, instead of dancing on the pedals to keep the wings level, the pilot gives it rudder with the break and places the a/c into a spin. Four rotations later the pilot gives it full opposite rudder until the wings are level. This places the a/c in a nose down attitude. Power on, back pressure on the yoke, and the a/c is recovered. According to the practical test standards the pilot only appears to make one mistake. He is supposed to exit the spin on the heading on which he entered it. The interior view adds one more element, the stall warning horn. This horn is mechanical and sounds when the air flowing over the wing is no longer producing lift, this gives the pilot about 2 seconds to get the wings level or the nose down or risk a stall and possibly a spin. Of course, in this case that's precisely what they want. Great video. Enjoy!