Marc Ramsey wrote:

OK, I'm curious. How many of you have had to recover from a fully
developed (greater than one turn), unintentional spin that occurred
during normal non-aerobatic flight?


Well I haven't.

An interesting aside, especially in view of the comments about spinning (or
not) ballasted.

I still have on my shelf a copy of George Moffat's "Winning on the Wind"
which includes his account of the 1970 Worlds at Marfa (which he won). He
mentions a hair-raising inadvertent spin in the (presumably ballasted)
Nimbus 1 in which he lost 1500 ft and recovered by "flexing the floppy
wings by yanking on the stick". Don't try this at home.

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