Sorry to have to correct you mate.....
One can only recover from incipient VRS. This is because the real m'coy does not enable the pilot to take control of the a/c. It is doing its own thing and will either terminate your flight violently or recover itself long enough for the pilot to do something about it. VRS is no longer demonstrated anywhere, to my knowledge for this very reason.
Having said that, does the american pilot interpret VRS as the UK IVRS???