The POH and training both say that an incipient spin is countered as you
would in any plane. Fully developed, pull the chute.
BTW, the Cirrus isn't the only thing out there not approved for spins. The
others simply don't have ANY recovery mechanism in case of one. Case in
point: Grummans.

"Michael 182" wrote in message
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This bothered me as well. While I think the chute is a great idea, and
will
probably save a number of lives before all is said and done, doesn't it
strike you as strange that the POH (at least accourding to the NTSB report
I
read) says that the only method of spin recovery is to deploy the chute.
Why
doesn't opposite rudder work?

Michael

"Tom S." wrote in message
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Nice to know that the only spin recovery is to deploy (maybe) a
'chute.