Are you still keen on this kind of flying?

[jandakotcruiser]

After getting away from flying the heavy twins and the Boeing four holer, I flew solo in a Cessna some months ago. Attemped to do some spins which weren't very tidy. Came away ashen faced, ego very deflated. Then I had to see this yesterday :

World Videos Yahoo! New Zealand News (http://nz.news.yahoo.com/video/watch/25655489/19467523/)

Ain't too brave to get back on the Cessna anymore. Maybe I will stick to AP on at 200' AGL after takeoff and click it off at 500' AGL on a cool ILS approach. After touchdown bark at my F/O, " after thumping checks mate! "

[VMA-214]

Caught a glimpse of this on Skynews in the mess thismorning but couldnt stay to see the outcome, through your post I could, cheers...
Wary of stating the definite cause, but the previous tumble ends rather unfortunately and you can see the aircraft hesitate and float downwards momentarily, where he lost just enough height to be unable to make his pull out...the previous move exit was pretty low too...easy for me to comment as an observer, harder to make snap decisions as PIC...
I saw Kindlemann put his (Matt Halls old aircraft) into the Swan River (I had just stopped filming at the previous pylon because his smoke stopped working) and will never forget the sound it made and the sickening feeling I felt...luckily his outcome was much better and fortunate they had just completed underwater training at YPJT ERT facility earlier that week.
I was down at RACWA later the same day (I did not fly) and was inundated with calls from friends who thankfully passed on the news Kindlemann had survived.
A minutes radio silence from me to our pilot friend at the Polish display.