"Dave Katz" wrote in message
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"Vaughn" writes:

We are not talking about a trainer, we are talking about an
advanced,
owner-flown, plane that will occasionally end up in an inadvertant spin.
Any
pilot that has enough experience to be flying one shout at least be able
to
recite the standard spin recovery procedure.

Saying that the plane "will occasionally end up in an inadvertent
spin" is a lot like calling it a plane that "will occasionally end up
crumpled on the side of a mountain in clouds and freezing rain." You
have to be trying really hard to spin one; it's hard to pin that on the
plane.


No, you don't have to be trying real hard to spin one. If this were true,
people would not be dying due to approach and departure stalls.

We are a many of us excellent pilots on the ground. Stuff happens in the
air. People make mistakes.



We can probably all recite the standard spin recovery procedure. I
suspect that a significant number of us have never experienced a spin
nor actually done the procedure, and should it happen in real life will
probably be really confused and disoriented for long enough to die.

When I moved to California I was able to recite the standard earthquake
procedure, but when it happened the first time I had no idea what was
happening to me until it was already over...