Recently, Thomas Borchert posted:

Neil,

The more I hear this line of reasoning, the more I wonder why a
manufacturer would NOT spin test their aircraft?

Money.

Surely, the increased
cost of testing would not offset the inuendo that the aircraft can't
recover from a spin?

It can. The certified method for that is to pull the chute.

That's "flight abandonment", not spin recovery, as "recovery" implies that
one is flying afterwards... ;-)

Why use a chute rather than certify traditional spin recovery? They
wanted the chute anyway, so they saved money. Why build in a chute?
Look at the sales numbers.

I don't think that the sales numbers would suffer from the inclusion of
traditional spin recovery techniques. Perhaps I'm a real oddball type of
pilot, but I am not impressed by the 'chute, given the injuries and deaths
that have resulted from its use.

Neil