A newbies impression of the 109 and spit

[Crumpp]

With your experience do you agree that the two golden rules are as stated?

Yes and just as the Operating Notes warn, it is the recovery that is dangerous to the airframe.

Understand?

46 pilot overstressed airframe

46 pilots died from it.

loss of control by the pilot (36 cases).

Loss of control is not very well defined, Glider. A spin accident though IS a loss of control accident.

Moreover, 41 percent of those
fatal accidents ended with a stall/spin.

Stalls and spins continue to be a significant
part of LOC-I.

http://www.faa.gov/news/safety_brief...r2012Pilot.pdf

Statistically, a very high percentage of those loss of control accidents is a spin.