Originally Posted by
greeners
wonkazoo - you are clearly a very able pilot. However, I have to take issue with your insistence that Beggs Muller is the best 'single' approach. The critical point here is that pilots MUST know the spin recovery techniques for their specific aircraft. Whilst Beggs Muller does indeed work on a variety of types, in some aircraft taking your hands off the stick in a spin will cause it to go high rotational.
Let's have no more talk about 'general' or 'blanket' spin recovery techniques please. Make sure that you know the spin recovery techniques outlined in the POH for YOUR specific aeroplane.
The real problem here in the US anyway is that there is no statutory requirement that a prospective pilot ever experience a spin before becoming licensed. This is one reason (I believe) that stall spin accidents in the pattern and elsewhere are still far too common. For the majority of those accidents the pilot keeps the stick buried to the rear, primarily out of fear and inexperience I'm guessing. If the PIC had simply released the back pressure up to the point of autorotation or even in most cases after it they would not have fatally crashed their perfectly good airplane. Everything I have written here is intended primarily for that audience- the one who doesn't know what adverse yaw even looks like, much less a developing spin. For that audience, and perhaps that audience only, keeping the stick back is simply not the right advice and nearly all GA aircraft will fail to recover or will take unduly long to recover if the back pressure on the stick is not released immediately after applying opposite rudder.
Perhaps I was wrong when I offered that spins are not the great unknown- they aren't, but how your aircraft will react when in one or entering one is highly variable, hence this discussion.
Warm regards-
dce