I haven't been keeping up with this thread for a while. Dan Winterland commented on a previous post of mine:
Similar, but not the same. There is no 'standard spin recovery' for all aircraft as some people of this forum claim. They vary from type to type, some slightly - some massively.
Dan,
I didn't make myself clear. The point I was making was that all the types I have spun (light SE or gliders) have a recovery technique that is some variation on "full-opposite rudder, pause, move the stick forward". I had never heard of type that required centralized stick during recovery.
It is tragic that these two pilots had only flown types that required this technique and that the PIC had not done any dual spins in the Firefly.
H PEACOCK and LOMCEVAK subsequently explained why that technique was required on the Tucano but I haven't seen any discussion on the reason for requiring it on the civil Tutor. Can anybody explain why?