Having had a couple of lessons with Alan Cassidy and being hugely entertained (and not a little impressed) by his accelerated flat spin in the Pitts, where you feel the g in your back rather than your seat, I can claim but a fraction of his knowledge and experience in the field. I have often thought that if an aircraft I was spinning failed to recover and I had the height I would try a blast of throttle to energise the rudder (never tried it yet though). . .The problem arises when you have to teach a generic spin recovery technique to ab-initio students, who can virtually crap themselves when they experience their first one. As far as I am aware the technique taught to RAF students is valid for every type they are likely to spin during their service career (although I stand to be corrected on that) so it makes sense to teach that rather than a technique which could be type-specific and may require more thought than that required to carry out the automatic response involved in the standard recovery as currently taught.. .Having said all that I'd love to try the techniques mentioned and will do when I can get someone who knows more about it to sit beside me.
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