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That was fantastic! Thank you!

If you spin, no problem, you just recover. If you stall, a catastrophe might happen: you might spin. The above is my literal opinion and is *partially* because stalls are initially done in aircraft not rated for spins.

Was in a Decathlon with my instructor. I could spin easily from a side slip: the high wing dropped and just kept going. In a skidding turn it just kept kind of mushing even with rudder into the turn and the stick back and out of the turn. 🤷‍♂️I probably wasn’t positive enough with my inputs. After what I had heard, I expected to invert with only slightly crossed controls. Maybe I would have in a Cessna. Snap rolls were fun. You can see one and the above stalls on Youtube if you search APenNameAndThatA. Not that I recommend it. Baby photos being more interesting to parents. I might try an inverted snap roll, but might need to be in an Extra 300. This all has gone from ———- frightening to fun. A couple of sessions ago I was not game to do a power on stall in the Decathlon - as in literally not game. I thought something dramatic would happen but nothing did the next time when I did it.

A plane at my flightschool is BNE, which is quite a coincidence as the flight school is in Brisbane.

$=? Who approached whom?

That might explain it - me not seeing burnt planes. The plane (the bits that I could see because they were not black) did not look burnt, even though it was.

Also, an argument in favour of diesel aircraft no one seems to mention.

I know I bang on about helmets. But if you wear one, it is more likely to be conscious and therefore able to exit the aircraft before it catches fire.

Hard to argue with official stats. But I have seen lots if photos of crashed LSA’s and don’t remember any where there was a fire.

If they won’t talk to you then maybe get something else instead?

When was the last time an aircraft caught fire after crashing? Not that I wear synthetics flying.

Foxbat will be fine.

I will have to experiment with that. I'm not usually that precise!

That is true, of course. The elevator is more important.

Im not saying you’re wrong. But if he was a self-declared low and slow hyperlegend, why wouldn’t he use good technique?

I read somewhere where that if you are coming in to land very slowly, you should control direction with long rudder inputs and control roll with brief stabs on the rudder. (That makes sense as an aircraft will have much more inertia in yaw than roll.)(I have no intention of ever needing to try that out.) Anyway, the pilot was controlling roll with ailerons the whole time and when the wing dropped he tried to pick it up with the ailerons. That makes me suspect that the pilot did not intend to fly so slowly but was distracted because they were at an airshow.

Only if you ALREADY have the app open.

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That is Medvedev looking sad as Nadal kisses his MSA flight helmet.

… you and your colleagues will look like these

When you have one of these….

That’s what I take from these stories too. Not how dumb they were but how dumb I could be.

I actually learnt a lot.

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You can get jerry cans that you tip upside down, and the weight of the fuel opens the tap. Very little spilling. This one is called a Tough Jug. I can’t vouch for the quality. I was looking for a pic because people were mentioning jerry cans and electric pumps. This is an alternative to a normal jerry can. One advantage of this is that the aircraft supports the weight of the jerry can while the fuel flows.