Good points Genghis.
The business of training people to recover quickly and safely with minimum loss of height following an inadvertent loss of control or “departure from controlled flight” aka “departure” is a difficult one – and yet arguably the most important thing.
Ideally, the departee (how about that) will be with it enough to recognise what is happening as a departure, and simultaneously chop the throttle and put everything in the centre (and hold it there against possibly large control snatching). I agree that if that is done accurately and quickly then motion about any axes will likely stop and you then just have a recovery from an unusual attitude to do – ie roll wings level to the nearest horizon using aileron and then (and not before) ease out of the dive.
Personally I doubt that a departee who has not had the confidence building benefit of full standard spin entry and recovery training (to say nothing of aeros training) will react by executing this drill. I fear many will just instinctively oppose the aircraft motions – coarse use of aileron to counter the perceived bank angle and sick hard back to get the nose up. In which case, in the circuit, all is likely lost.
JF
[This message has been edited by John Farley (edited 08 September 2000).]