Spin recovery techinque accidently discovered.
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Jesus. I had just levelled out at 12000 ft on AP and started fiddling with my views on the keyboard. I do not know what I pressed but the NAV WP changed to the previous one and the AC began a surprisingly steep turn to the right to achieve it. "Damn" I thought, as I proceeded to the GPS unit to change it back when suddenly I started to black out! That was VERY surprising. Quick as a flash I disengaged the AP (not sure if it had already disengaged by then) and looked out the front window to see ocean! Jesus... 'WTF is going on!'
Yup, I was in a slow spin. Ummm. 'Ok, deal with it'. The ocean was slowly spinning counter-clockwise so I applied right rudder, it momentarily slowed the spin so I pulled back and then the spin came back in. Quick glance to the ALT and I was around 8 thousand something and it was spinning backwards pretty quickly. Adrenalin had kicked in by now!
Ok... 'ummm, keep the rudder in and push nose foward, try that'. Yep! Something akin to slight control came back and I finally arrested the spin and started slowly pulling back. Levelled out at 5800'. I'd lost half of my initial altitude!!
So why post this? 2 reasons. Firstly it scared the fkn sh1t out of me, and secondly WTF did it depart controlled flight in the first place?
A still very much alive but shaken CoolGunS.
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Nope. Both engines were still running fine, before, during and after the event. Besides, I didn't put it into the spin, the AP tried to kill me. It was flying the plane straight and level on NAV mode That is the reason for this post. Just to clarify, in fiddling with my keyboard views I was playing with the arrow keys which are on the righthand side. The 'Z' key to disable the AP is on the left. So I know I didn't disable it myself. Further, whatever I did to cause the WP change, caused the AP to turn back to the previous WP. So it was definitely in control when it started the steep turn. When I went into the GPS to change the WP back I was looking down into the GPS and that is when I started to black out. AP was most certainly still in control, or had disconnected itself just then.