Spins
Talking about spins, I always hated and feared them. In OUAS in the early 1960s we were regularly checked by our instructors and then expected to go off and do them solo. The entry was always of the classic variety, that Dan describes above. The first or second turn would be inverted, as I remember, and after a couple more the nose was firmly down, almost vertically it seemed. Recovery took a while when the spin was fully developed, but you just had to hang on. Thing was, to keep the wings level.
Would we have recognised an incipient spin from a messed up approach or bank at too low speed, I am not sure!
Happy days.
Laurence