Aerobatic Pitts question

[JW Scud]

From another forum about a recent crash,

"Sounds like it wasn't a spin then - a friend of mine owns and flies a Pitts and he says the recovery from a spin quite easily due to the size of the rudder - you just pull the power and take your feet off the rudder and hand off the stick. The one place things get confusing is if the back seat pilot is looking over the top wing, the rotation appears to be the opposite, since the point of rotation of a fully developed spin is behind the wing to the back seater. So if they was looking in the wrong place, it would be easy to apply in-spin rudder, just making things worse. If you hold in-spin rudder, just relieving stick pressure will not stop the spin (Really big rudder), you have to push (or pull in an inverted spin) pretty hard"

Any truth to this?

[Colonel]

Look at the gas cap, under the top wing, for the yaw.

Step on the rudder to stop the yaw, that you see at
the gas cap.  That’s with your feet.

With your left hand, throttle all the way back.

With your right hand, let go of the stick.

Then using both hands, pull back on the throttle
again.  This is to ensure that you let go of the stick,
with your right hand.

Begs-Mueller even results in minimum altitude
loss - see Spencer’s videos, where he demonstrates
this.

Really a very simple airplane to recover from a spin.

[cgzro]

Yes it can be confusing (S1 and S2), its also confusing in Extra's with the big bubble canopy. You have to look down the cowl for correct yaw identification. The Extra (and more so the Giles 202) can go around so fast under power that its just a blur out there, and in that case "rudder goes with with the flow" is a useful way to think of it.