"Jim Smolen" <jsmolen@SPAMBEGONE.bcm.tmc.edu> wrote in message
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> jcrogin@yahoo.com (Jonah Rogin) wrote:
>
> >> A few years ago, a student and instructor bailed out of an inverted
> >> spin in a Decathlon. Student made it, instructor didn't.
> >
> >Why did they have to bail?
>
> Apparently, they were practising inverted spins. My recollection of
> reports of the accident was that the student said that they started a
> normal inverted spin at about 7000'. After multiple turns, the CFI
> asked the student's assistance in recovering. The student found the
> stick to be free and "stuck" in the forward position. The student
> tried to pull the stick aft but the CFI told him not to. It seems to
> me that the CFI was attempting a Mueller-Beggs recovery in the
> Decathlon, which will not always work. This was one of those bad
> times.
>

I am not familiar with the expression Mueller-Beggs recovery, is that when
you attempt to increase the airflow around the tail of the plane by
increasing the angle of attack?

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