You lose the option of standard spin recovery in exchange
for the chute.
Nope. Just not a spin recovery capability proven in certification. For
all any
of us know, a standard recovery will work, especially if initiated
early. If it
*doesn't* though, the pilot does have another option.

Well, I suppose you also don't "lose" the option of doing the Tango.
The spin recovery was not proven in certification. If you get into a
spin, you have the option of becoming a test pilot, or of pulling the
chute. In a standard airplane, you have the option of standard spin
recovery (which has been proven to work), or becoming a test pilot.

Jose

All of these points are true, and I think that they narrowly miss a greater
point in both spin avoidance and spin recovery--at least in visual
conditions. That is that a pilot proficient is spins and spin recovery is
much more likely to correctly recognize the problem and immediately take
corrective action; which should be highly effective in any aircraft normally
operated with a PPL. My belief is that any single engine recip (I can't
think of an exception) can be recovered with only a modest loss of altitude
during the first 90 degrees of a spin entry; but that the required
proficiency requires practice and recurrent training which cannot be
conducted in type--in the case that intentional spins are prohibited.

Peter
Just my $.02