No PO I haven't forgotten my 18 year age, in fact I was learning to fly in none other than a Victa Airtourer. The aero club that I was with had just got the "hot" model, a full 115 hp no less, up from 100 hp. The big rig is what we were taught spins etc in, which I was /am endorsed to do.
Procedure was, amongst the other checks as pointed out by 212 man, height to recover by 3,000', emergency landing area nominated and pointed to and calculated that it could be reached from EOL 3,ooo'.
The money that I used to learn with was gained from severe hard work with chain saw, sledge hammer, post splitting wedges, axe and adze. There was no room in that psyche to be flamboyant with radical decisions.
Spins in those damn things if you could call it that, dropped off about 2500 feet very quickly, with one and a half turns from memory, we always started at or above 6,000'.
I would suggest that height to recover at 3,000' should have taken an EOL in that type, from Brooker highway to very close to Hobart airport, let alone all the flat ground in between.
Here I am not mentioning anything about non approved aeros above a populous area?????
I take your point as have many others in other threads regarding the turning of totally routine EMS flights into - outside the envelope - hazardous experiences. No one will deny that much work needs to be done preventing that idiocy.
My main point is that how can a youngster with barely formulated theories on anything, and what appears here to be dangerous tendencies, be able to slip past the air force selection panel shrink test. Is the shrink panel a bunch of egotistical blinkered people or what??
cheers tet