Airplane Spin - Outside View

Doing some spins in a Cessna 152. Video was filmed from the ground...

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[qwerty28637]

dude, i'm like 2500' agl... i'm not trying to be the fastest or coolest doing spins, i'm trying to learn what causes them and how to enter them so that i can recover from one as quickly as possible in the event of an emergency. feel free to post a video response of you doing "full spins"

[qwerty28637]

well this was done in a cessna 152 that is in the utility category and rated for spins, which means cessna probably did tests to ensure the airframe can handle the different loads placed on it during a spin. i always write in the remarks section of my logbook that i did spins, but no you do not need to log extra flying hours due to extra stress.

thanks for the comments everyone!

[adonist7]

hah amazing video, i always wondered what spins looked like from the ground

[genourbanrain]

I surely hope this never happens to me. It looks like something I would want to know how to recover from but not something I would want to induce. Whew....

[toospeed31]

@qwerty28637 nice video but i do believe cessna has put out a warning about doing spins in the 152's because the wing spar was showing signs of weakness and cracks, i would rethink spins in a 152 until further notice...

[chris12345f]

cool vid, but shouldn t you only do stalls at 3500ft agl

[bigracin16969]

@ehtozed8 the spin doesnt but the recovery part does. thats like saying "its not the fall that kills you, its the sudden stop".

[ehtozed8]

Thanks for the video; I wondered what it looked like from the outside and whether or not I actually went upside down.

Spins put basically zero stress on the aircraft, as the aircraft is simply falling out of the sky, so you shouldn't need to worry about if the aircraft was designed to handle spins.

[SRMeadows]

Man, thanks for posting...........I also always wondered what a spin looked like from outside. 

[curtiiis80]

These are not full spins, as the aircraft is not allowed to enter a stable spinning motion before executing recovery. Normally it takes about 2-4 spinning motions before the aircraft is in a stable spin. I've done this in a bulldog, and the spinning is quite faster and the nose points much higher towards the horizon as full spin is obtained.

[justforever96]

I've read about spinning in a bunch of places, and how they work, and how to initiate them, how to recover from them, how the plane behaves...and I've been picturing the motion all wrong! LOL, thanks for the video, everything I read makes a lot more sense now. I think what I was thinking of was a flat spin, but I might be wrong.

BTW, how well does a Cessna's airframe stand up to this sort of thing? Do you have to add it to the log, and count it as extra flying hours, because the extra stresses?