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Kevin Maher's avatar

🤣👏✍️

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Becky Isjwara's avatar

Woah, I'm curious if you ever found out what on earth happened with that plane. But this was exhilarating. Your description of what it feels like to "tempt fate" was insanely vivid and good.

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Karena's avatar

Same.

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Latham Turner's avatar

I never found out for sure, but I think we got into an off-nominal spin and then when I input recovery controls so quickly, it didn't have enough airflow to respond to the input. It usually doesn't respond to steady state in a full spin. In other words, by slamming the controls so fast to recover I caused the airplane to not have enough authority to do what I wanted it to. It needed a slower input.

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Becky Isjwara's avatar

Woah, so in those situations you ACTUALLY had to stay calm and CALMLY put in the recovery controls

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Renato Zane's avatar

Thanks for doing such a good job bringing us into the cockpit with you. This is another great post.

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Latham Turner's avatar

Thank you Renato. I'm glad you liked it

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Karena's avatar

Boy! My lunch too!

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Latham Turner's avatar

I came to love OCF flights, but not this first time.

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Joshua Doležal's avatar

Really vivid! Love the nickname, too.

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Latham Turner's avatar

Thanks Josh. I'd love to say I picked it, but that's not the way things work.

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Joshua Doležal's avatar

My Southern nickname was Dooley, or Dually, as one of my baseball teammates wrote it on a card. Not my first choice either, but I learned to embrace it.

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E.L. Zeitgeist's avatar

The end is me literally "NOOOOOOO" out loud, hahaha!! YES!! Another classic, pulse-pounding Latham ride! And thanks for the broomstick reference to give us civilian layfolk something to grab onto (no pun intended?)

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Latham Turner's avatar

yeah, being made an OCF instructor ended up being a blessing, but not what I wanted in this moment.

Glad you liked it. More to come.

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