bumper wrote:

Boy oh boy . . . I'm not sure if some of you have your head in the clouds or
your head in the sand (g).

Boy oh boy... do you really read a post before you're answering to it
(g)? If you had followed this thread, then you'd know that this is
exactly what I wrote.

This discussion started when I wrote that "the whisky compass method
doesn't work in real life". I added that if you ever manage to be in a
situation where you need an emergency descent through IMC, then the only
procedure which may work is the one I mentioned. I repeat: *emergency
procedure* and *may*. BTW, many modern gliders will go from a spin into
a spiral dive after a couple of turns, so that old "spin it down"
emergenca procedure is a no-no in modern ships, and is actually
explicitely forbidden in some POHs for that very reason.