This might seem a little confusing. It was, at least for me.
At about 25k I was forced to perform a very hard evasive. Although I had not intended to stall / spin, this was the result. My initial airspeed was low, around 150mph. As I recall, I attempted a very hard Split-S, angled to the right or left. I was trying to get out of my attackers plane of motion and get some speed.
Normally, I have been able to recover from spins by getting the nose down, getting off the throttle and counter countrolling. However; this one was much different.
The confusing part, was that I could not recover from this spin using manual controls. The nose was pointed straight down. I was rapidly rotating, only on the rotational axis. The stall horn was pounding in my ears. All my manual inputs, including on / off the throttle only served in part, to slow the spin.
Fighting the spin all the way down, losing over 20k. I knew that I could not recover. I was sure that "The ground was going to come up and smite me". I simply engaged OttoLevelPilot, within 5 seconds I was flying level. I came out of the spin at low speed, maybe around 120mpg. (I got shot down anyway, but I hate giving someone my famous "Lawndart Kill".
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I am sure that I had taken no damage. I checked on the way down while I was spinning via my joystick macro. So, I considered this spin to be in an un-damaged plane.
This is my first spin in AH of such proportion, essentially un-recoverable. I have not been able to reproduce it for some reason.
I was just wondering if this modeled spin was inherent to the actual Spit FM, AH Beta FM / spin modeling, if it happens to other people / in different planes (AH), or just my poor flying?
Thanks in advance.
Merry Christmas Everyone!
Mino
