Scott - On a local training mission we'd be looking at 1.3 hours. On cross country flights we might get 1.7 or a little more.

Wow, that is even worse than I thought! I'd rather have a T-38... at least you can get somewhere in those 2 hours.

If you logged 2 hours on 1 T-38 flight, the last .3 would be as a glider

reminds me of something Wile E. Coyote would fly with it's simple lines and should say ACME across the nose.

I experienced my first inverted spin in a T 37. Never again.
The story told to us was that the boundary layer fence added to the nose was installed after the Cessna test pilot ejected when he could not recover from a spin. Old wives tale??

I recall the spin recovery included a very vigorous forward movement of the stick. That's how I entered the inverted spin

Lots of high frequency hearing loss


Alan

Fly Safe

The T-37 had a couple of mods for spins. One was the horizontal "spin strakes" on either side of the nose and another was the addition of a small vertical fin below the tail. I seem to recall they also increased the amount of elevator travel. You're right that it required an abrupt full forward stick if you were doing the fully developed spin recovery procedure. Otherwise a smooth application of forward stick and opposite rudderr would fly it out of the spin 99% of the time. You should try doing an intentional slow spin recovery...it causes the airplane to spin faster as it slowly pitches more toward the vertical, much like an ice skater who pulls her arms in during a spin. Yeehaw!
Tom