Thankyou - I think at the time that probably fewer words were exchanged and the conversation was in fairly high pitched voices! I was probably too inexperenced to realise the seriousness of the predicament and so I was a bit cooler than I was entitled to be....
John, the Jet Provost spin was also interesting at times and I am sure you can tell a story or two about that aircraft. I lost 10 thousand feet or so in a Mk3 once. Caused by me mishandling during aeros and then also being slow to take off full opposite rudder after the spin stopped....
[This message has been edited by ShyTorque (edited 04 September 2000).]