C172 Flat spin in X-plane outside view

Flat Spin with C172 in X-Plane simulator. Only way to recover such a falling plane is to get the nose down and force it to fall even faster and then pull a flying plane up to complete the recovery. In flat spin the angle between air flow and wing is nearly 90 degrees, but wing is able to fly at 16 degrees or less, so you must force the wing to become parallel with airflow, which means nose full down.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• C172
• X-Plane
• Flat
• Spin

[wigrysystems]

From outside you see better, but from inside you get a better idea of the working environment :) and also the instruments: in the spin, the IAS goes to flat zero and I recover while only few hundered feet to spare :D

This is what X-Plane is currently able to simulate, don't know if real cessna behaves exactly the same, and I have no plan to find out :)

[mpoho2000]

I'd shit my pants if I actually flat spinned an aircraft. In real life, you can put a 172 into a spin, as long as you got the altitude the thing will recover with almost zero control input. Very stable aircraft.

[id5556]

How many fsx vids are there, of such spins? :-)

[swissxplane]

well done, from oputside we see better

[tiemji]

It was pretty much well modelled, maybe too fast??

In all cases it was interesting