Not a FJ tale.
Brand new B2 QFI on UAS Summer Camp in Germany, teaching Spinning 2 for the first time.
Spinning 2 = Academic full spins and recoveries.
Student reproduces Incipient Spin Recovery satis.
Student enters Spin, teach maintain spin = maintain full pro-spin controls whilst monitering height.
Student enters Spin and maintains Spin, teach recovery.
Now the big one.
Student enters Spin, maintains Spin then recovers on my command.
Nope.
Student enters spin, maintains spin then when ordered to recover decides to mumble a bit and let go of the controls.
I am a bit confused as students are not meant to do this. End up in a high rotational spin.
Spend what seems a while but wasn't, trying to decide whether to put controls back to eye pleasing pro-spin position before recovery or to just carry out recovery.
Decide to carry out recovery which does work but end up with a recovery at abandonment height.
Tell student that he got it wrong.
Climb back up for a re-teach of recovery. Student throws up during spin. Recover to base for sit down and a cup of tea.
What did I learn from that.
Spinning is one of those areas in flying where you can not afford for students to make mistakes.
When teaching spinning I subsequently kept a firm grip on the controls and only let them travel in the direction that I wanted them to.