Practicing Spins in a Cessna

Practicing Spins in a Cessna over Bozeman, MT in 2003.
This was as part (at least indirectly) related to my procurement of a certificate.
Makes me wish I could afford to keep flying.

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Travel & Events

Tags:

• aircraft
• spin
• practice
• flying
• flight
• training
• crash
• bozeman
• montana

[vettefever333]

Just my curiosity but is this video of two different spins? I count 3 revolutions from the external video but 2 from the view from the PIC video in the last third.

[mtcaving]

@vettefever333

Yeah, you're correct, they were both taken with the same camera inside the same plane, on the same flight. The inside view is a spin of my plane, the external perspective is another instructor and student.

[gfunkel200]

how close to Vne were you?

[mtcaving]

@gfunkel200

Didn't really get all that close; may have topped out at ~115/120

Vne on that plane is ~150kts

[bkayani79]

What was the initial altitude before the spin? I did not 172 is approved for spins. But very nice video. Thanks for sharing.

[mtcaving]

@bkayani79

~7500-8000 if I remember correctly.

The wheat fields you see below are at about 4600.

[sideeways]

I have this lesson tomorow. GOODLUCK TO ME! GREAT video!!

[Chronikhit]

I'm quite certain this is the best spin video I've seen on youtube. Nice job, you guys captured it very well :)

[69a96t]

haha !! looove spins ! scare the shit outa you at first but u get use to it ! cool video !!

[proxo1231]

I got here from the water baloon then the bullet trought the wine then the dog chasing a wild animal

[etiennesnyman]

Great video, thanks for uploading!

[rayraychapman]

I love spins and stalls. Much fun to be had in a 150.

[pmitko]

@mtcaving I believe while you'er in a spin the speed is very low, 60-70 knots maybe. in the recovery once you kick in opposite rudder you pick up a bit more speed but again not too much maybe 100-110 knots. On a C172 Vne is 162 knots. Now if you do spiral dives Vne comes very fast indeed

[vettefever333]

LOVE the video. I am a pilot up in Ontario. Used to take a little 150 Aerobat out and do spins, stalls. I have never seen what it looked like from an outside perspective. Thanks for letting me know what it looks like. I lived every second of the video pulling off the power, taking her up till she stalled and kicking the rudder over to go down into the spin and recovering. People go to the safe roller coaster for their thrills. VERY VERY VERY few will ever know the rush of this. So cool man.