I know an Examiner who agreed to give a check ride in a Bonanza with a throw 
over yoke.  The applicant was attempting a stall and got into an accidental 
spin.  The applicant had never seen a spin before.  The examiner had to talk 
him through the recovery.  The recovered within a couple hundred feet of the 
ground.
I had a student get into a spin in a glider by accident.  His name was Dave 
and as he got closer and closer to the spin the words out of my mouth were an 
unemotional monotone  "Dave, Dave, what are you doing Dave, Dave, what are 
you doing?"  I had been grooming him to be a flight instructor, so I guess it 
never clicked in my head that he could actually be getting into a spin by 
accident.  If he had been a student who I hadn't trusted so much the words 
would have been more like "left rudder, left rudder, I have the controls."  
At any rate, what I did say was really quite monotone and unemotional.  Ever 
since then he has teased me about being "HAL the computer" from 2001.  You 
remember the line when Dave the astronaut is taking HAL's circuits apart and 
a very monotone computer voice asks "Dave, what are you doing?"
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Robert Linenweber
... There is safety in numbers - Participate in the "Wings" Program!
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