Spinning a Diamond DA20 Aircraft Short video of spin flight training in a Diamond DA20 Aircraft in Chaoyang, China. For more information about spin training check out my related post: Aircraft Experience 5.0 - Spinning Diamonds. If the video doesn’t work in China you can see it in YouKu at Spinning a Diamond DA20.
Flight Experience 5 - Diamond DA20 I first flew the Austrian designed, Canadian built, two-seat Diamond DA20 aircraft in Florida back in 2001. The DA20-A1 models back then were also called Diamond "Katana's". That time I used it for teaching private pilot students and I flew the plane for about 100 hours. Next time I had an opportunity fly the aircraft was ten years later in 2011. At the time I was living in Chaoyang, Liaoning Province, China. The DA20's we had in China where slightly improved DA20-C1 models that had dropped the Katana designation. For now on I will just refer the aircraft as Diamond DA20's. Chaoyang, Liaoning Province. About 500 km northeast of Beijing, and about the same distance to North Korea. Working as a CFI I was working as the Chief Flight Instructor in a Chinese government owned flight [...]
