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gibbons Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: "Extra 300L Spin Characters" 10-05-04, 02:38z  I have been flying a 300L for a couple of months now. I came to the Extra from a Pitts. I have been working some with a pilot who has lots of Pitts and Sukoi experience, but not a huge amount of Extra experience. My question involves spins. It seems to me that the Extra enters a spin much more casually than the Pitts (S2A and S2C), and spins much flatter. I've tried to enter the spin with pretty agressive pull, but the Extra still seems very lazy in starting the spin. The nose is very high at one turn and it takes about one and a half turns for the spin to really develop. I find that this flatter spin is especially true in inverted spins where the nose is positioned just about like an inverted flat spin in the Pitts, although the Extra seems to wrap up in the inverted spin after about one turn. It also seems to me that the Extra will come out of a deep spin much more quickly than the Pitts. It has never required more than a couple of turns to recover from a spin in the Extra. I’ve talked with one other Extra owner who agrees, but he’s a new owner as well. How do you find the Extra spins when compared to the Pitts? Is there anything I can do to make the Extra enter the spin more aggressively? And finally, does it matter in competition how abruptly the spin is entered? Thanks. Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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Subject      Author      Message Date     ID      Extra 300L Spin Characters    gibbons       10-05-04              RE: Extra 300L Spin Characters    Patty_Wagstaff       10-06-04       1            RE: Extra 300L Spin Characters    gibbons       10-06-04       2                 RE: Extra 300L Spin Characters    Patty_Wagstaff       10-17-04       3                      RE: Extra 300L Spin Characters    Loop4fun       12-25-04       4         RE: Extra 300L Spin Characters    djmolny       01-05-05       5

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