The most absurd spin stall ever!

X-Plane flight simulator.
Spin stall on Pitts single seater
Freeware.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• X-Plane
• Spin
• stall
• Pitts

[fisarmonicista]

I've never been able to do a spin in flight simulator, is there something turned on that avoids spins to hapen?, as far as I know I have all realism turned on. Someone knows what's going on? (of course I know how to do the procedure)

[stefanorso]

@fisarmonicista

X-Plane can partially simulate this kind of stall, even though it's got precise limits, due to the fact that turbolent currents cannot be calculated. Not 100% of planes spin in x-plane, but many do. Recoveries are usually far easier than in reality.

Thanks for watching! The most likely model to enter a spin are: Spitfire, Piper Malibu, Pitts, Su-26, Fi-156, and tons of others.

Thank U for watching!

[stefanorso]

@fisarmonicista Remember: all the airplanes designed and built so far (in reality) are spinnable, with very few exception: the Helio for instance. Another exception is the worldwide famous K21 (Sailplane).

Some airplane are spin-certified, others can get out of it, other tend to flatten the spin.

[mustiej70]

This video changed my life.

Thank you upload!!

God bless Antartica

[glpxt]

A Pitts with a yoke... learn something new every day. <:o)

[NateTheGreatPilot]

For those of us saying they cannot spin in Flight Simulator. You have to increase the realism up quite a bit (almost to the max...hell why not?) Then stall an aircraft (try a Cessna, oldie, but a goodie!) and mash a rudder and hang on! Great job w/ 71 rotations. Holy smokes!

[flyboy152152]

71 rotations



[fisarmonicista]

@stefanorso Thank you for the info to, that's an interesting video.

[t008er]

wow... people are arguing over whether a video game simulation is an "actual" stall or spin. Good thing all the humans on Earth have a warm place to sleep and eat tonight. 744 you are our saviour for pointing this out ty. allah blesses u

[cobrachoppergirl]

My grandfather (fighter pilot): you mentioned a flat spin. That's something you never wanted to get in for itwas almost impossible to recover from. I remember once in Port Moresby there was another squadron that had just changed over to P-38s and they were on a training flight. There were 16 planes in string formation playing follow the leader.

[cobrachoppergirl]

A group of our pilots were on our flight line watching them. They went into a loop and the last man stalled out at the top and went into a flat spin upside down and was spiriling toward the ground and we saw one of the props fly off, all of us started yelling bail out, bail out as if he could hear us.

[cobrachoppergirl]

He never did and minutes later we heard a loud crash in the distance with lots of black smoke. I never did find out who he was, but for years I had nightmares of it and would wake up in a cold sweat yelling bail out, bail out. But time has erased the memory and I don't have that nightmare any more.