Originally Posted by
macdo
With a few minutes to spare after an LPC, the instructor demonstrated how easy it was to spin an a320. The spin was totally classic albeit with an astonomic RoD. Recovery was similarly straighforward. I think the loss of altitude was about 6000'.
I am in no way suggesting that in real life things would be so simple, but it was an interesting and reassuring experience.
As has been pointed out, there has been no spin testing of A320s (!) to provide data on which to base a simulation. The reason the simulation behaved in a "totally classic" manner will have been precisely because that was how it was programmed to behave, similarly the recovery. Any reassurance you gained was based on an educated guess, at best!