I have no experience flying the 260, though a friend of mine who flew them for the company had many very nice things to say about them.
My limited experience watching one fly was terminated abruptly, with an announced spin entry along the runway, a few hundred feet up, at Oshkosh in 1983. The pilot did actually stop the rotation of the spin, but failed to arrest the descent rate. He impacted right in front of us, and that was that for the day's flying demonstration. I believe it was a fatal stop. I was disappointed that a pilot would be so foolish....
