1. Big, burly bloke's first spin lesson after the usual stalls etc. Sod froze on the controls with pro-spin input. Took a good few elbows into his ribs tomake him let go after I had tried talking & overpowering him on the controls.
2. Student at pre-solo stage, doing circuits. Just after landing he wrong-footed the rudder pedals, sending us off the runway & pointing at a *very* near cone marker. Too fast to stop, not fast enough to fly over it. Used full power, & max back pressure to raise the nosewheel & prop as high as I could and sort of 'hop' over the top of the cone then steered us back to the runway after it passed under the mainwheels.