Chance of surviving an inadvertent spin from 2000ft with conventional recovery - say, 50%
Altitude loss on spin should be about 400 ft. If we did a decent job of spin training these day's the pilot would recognize the incipient spin and the altitude loss would be 50 ft.
But, most aircraft spins are gentle manoeuvres and are frequently survivable. Find a copy of " The Tiger Moth Story" and look at the photo of a tiger moth in a spin about 10ft off the ground that was survived.
There have been analyses done of Cirrus chute deployments, and I'm not sure that spinning featured. My recollection is that most chute deployments have been a result of VFR to IMC with one or more pilot medical instances.
Last edited by Old Akro; 27th May 2012 at 00:52.