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| Subject: | Re: Allegro incident 2005Allegro incident 2005 |
Malcom,
Apparently, the Probable Cause finding was posted very recently because
it was not there when I looked after you brought up the question. In my
experience, there are no inherent design problems in the Allegro that
would necessarily lead to mystery crashes. Spin training is no longer
required in the USA. Is it in England?
I've been in one inadvertent spin in our Allegro. I was trying to climb
up through a rather small hole in the broken overhead cloud deck to fly
over a Class C airspace instead of through it. The hole was so small
all my attention was outside the cockpit in order to avoid the clouds.
The result was that I was not paying close attention to the airspeed.
It stalled and entered a spin from which I recovered in less than one
complete turn. Since I had spin training back in the old days, it was a
non-event for me. But it proved to me that even with the quite loud
stall warning system in the Allegro, one has to pay attention to notice
it when you are distracted. The moral of course is never let yourself
be distracted from airspeed monitoring when close to the ground.
I hope the weather there in Mid-England is better than here today. 3F
this morning with a wind chill of -16F but bright and sunny. Last
night the Buffalo-Niagara Falls International Airport (KBUF) was
zero/zero for awhile with winds gusting to 40 knots.
Thom in Buffalo
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