-=> Quoting Charles Mielke to Robert Linenweber <=-
 CM> For me, 5500 or below would be very low.  Yet,
 CM> I recall doing spins in Primary Flight training at an
 CM> altitude of below 5000. This was the PA-18 Super Piper.
 
PA-18 SUPER CUB, GREAT AIRPLANE! I have flown many hours in the old bird
that was the first plane i ever took the stick in,I was in the Va. C.A.P.
we where the last squadron to have a PA-18 ( N189T ) I sometimes wonder 
what ever happened to that bird.doing a spin in a PA-18 below 5,000
is not a problem at all, I have ridden in a 1946 J-3 cub doing spins from
1,000 feet down to around 400' turns out the old guy I was rideing with
didn't even have a license to fly as he couldn't read and had a pace maker.
but hey I was young and never asked questions when some one asked me if I 
wanted to go flying,heck we even learned how to do loops in the old cub.  
that was back in 1982, since then the ole guy died in he sleep and his 
freind that was his partner deid a short time later. the new owner of the
J-3 loops it and dose hammer heads with it all the time. not bad for 75 h.p.
 
 CM> areas, I suppose. I shudder to think, now, of doing
 CM> spins in ANY aircraft at 5000 or below.
 
Kind of funny, being brought up flying low and slow in the old j-3
I get nerviose  whenever I get above 5,000. I rode a few years ago
to Roanoke rapids Va. in a homebuilt sportmens 2+2, it is like the piper
except 4 seat and a 180 lyc. engine and cruise at 120 m.p.h.,anyway we 
were at 8,000 feet and I can honestly say I was very glad to get back
on the ground, ( not use to seeing airliners pass in front of me.)
I guess that is why I im now so much in love with rotorflying, most the 
time in the ole Hughes TH-55 I am crusieing along at about 500 feet and
around 75 m.p.h. some times over the country we will drop down just over the
tree tops. one of our more fun ride with the instructior was down between
the trees over a river at one point we were down to about 5' off the water
I felt safe as my instructior lived in the area and knew the river well.
It did acure to me that an engine failure would be a bad thing at that 
point,but all in all it was a fun ride,not something ya get to do just
any day.
anyway fly safe.
           Timothy Heilig
... NORTH CAROLINA ROTORCRAFT ASSIOCITION- Home of the TH-135 Dusty II
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