Unexpected Spin

What were the takeaways, Brad? This was six years ago, and it sounds like you've done a pretty good job of laying it out there for us, with humility, by the way.

And that's not an easy thing to do.

This is where I made a mistake, and I want to tell the world about it, to have others learn from it.

Clean the upholstery.

Yes, clean the upholstery, yes.

Live to fly another day.

But what were the takeaways? What did you learn from this event?

So I don't think I really appreciated the takeaways then as much as I do now, right? I mean, I'll be like, okay, I did a stall spin.

You shake it off, you get back to phase one and you continue flying.

But what I have found is on my very next BFR, Whenever the instructor mentioned stalls, I started to have, I don't want to say a panic attack, but I started getting a bit nervous and started getting the sweaty palms and started getting a little bit dry throat.

The idea of doing any stall moving forward really, really scared me a lot, a lot more honestly than I thought it would to the point that I mean, I don't want to say that I avoided doing stalls because everybody needs to be proficient at doing slow flight and stalls.

But it was never comfortable.

Right.

There was always I think that's probably the best way to describe it.

There's always anxiety with it.

Yeah.

You know, up until then, I was, you know, ignorance is bliss.

Right.

Oh, yeah.

Stalls.

Absolutely.

We'll do stalls.

You want to do a spin? Yeah, we'll go

get the air belt.

We'll do a couple