Don't you know how high you are?
In a deliberately induced spin, yes. But in an inadvertantly entered spin, possibly not and possibly below safe minimum height for attempting a spin recovery, where aircraft abandonment might be the better (or only) option.
Which is why the first action was:
"Check Height"
Closely followed by: "Check Throttle closed".
I once got myself into an inadvertant prolonged spin as a JP3 student (in retrospect probably a flick into an inverted spin at full throttle), from a cocked up vertical aerobatic manoeuvre. This was followed by "some confusion" on my part because recovery from that hadn't been shown to me. I then further cocked things up by forgetting to centralise the rudder when the now erect spin stopped, so it spun the other way. I bust the abandonment height by quite a lot (the latter was 5,000 feet... I think, but it's been 35 years since). I do know I got down to well below 2,000 feet and only noticed / thought about it as I climbed back up through it.
I was told in my debrief that I should have pulled the Y&B handle at 5,000 feet. Last thing on my mind, TBH.
