I don't think Ercoupers should be so in awe of a spin. Basically, all
you have to do to recover from one is neutralize the controls and wait
until you see something familiar, then recover. What you will see is a
stable nose down attitude (dive)which is easy to recover from.
I have flown only two aircraft that had a specific spin recovery
procedure using specific anti-spin control inputs and both of those
aircraft were military and they were jets. I have flown two civilian
aircraft that if you stalled , you were a test pilot. One was a Lear
Jet.
Thing to remember, if you don't have the elevator control pulled back
into your lap, you're not going to spin. In fact, if you push the
elevator control full forward, you will "fly" out of the spin as the
airspeed increases. I think that's what Eddie Stinson did when he was
the first to make a spin recovery. He figured he would go in with a
bang and instead the airplane recovered.
Bart
