So you've put your Pigpen into a flat spin...

When the Fly-By-Wire mode on the Pigpen is enabled (that big red button on the right side of the instrument panel), it becomes possible to take the aircraft into high AoA maneuvers that often, for inexperienced pilots, lead to loss of control. This will cause the aircraft to tumble, which - assuming that one has enough altitude to not crash immediately - will usually result in a flat spin. While control can sometimes be regained in the tumble with careful control applications, recovery and return to controlled flight becomes significantly more difficult once the flat spin has been entered.

The most reliable way of recovering from a flat spin that I have currently evaluated is as follows. This method will use, on average, between one and five thousand feet of altitude; flat spins at low level are simply not recoverable regardless of the method used.

1. Keep Fly-By-Wire active. It got you into this situation, but it will also help get you out.
2. OPTIONAL: If the spin is slow (less than one rotation every three or four seconds), jettison any external stores. This will make the aircraft significantly lighter, which can aid in spin recovery. At spin rates greater than one rotation every three seconds, jettisoning external stores is unsafe and could result in destruction of the aircraft.
3. Throttle up to full power. In a flat spin, you have very little forward airspeed. Full throttle will do little to directly affect the spin, but it significantly improves recovery.
4. Apply full nose-down elevator, and full rudder and aileron in the direction of the spin. This will increase the spin rate but will, within a few rotations, begin to tilt one wing of the aircraft down towards the center of the spin. Once this occurs, the nose of the aircraft will begin to drop.
5. Continue to apply full elevator, rudder and aileron until the aircraft reaches a nose-down attitude. At this point, you are practically out of the spin. The aircraft will be in a 60- to 75-degree dive, spinning about its longitudinal axis instead of its vertical axis.
6. Return controls to neutral. You are no longer in a flat spin, but a rolling dive. Release all controls so that you do not inadvertently re-enter the spin.
7. Disengage Fly-By-Wire. Keeping it active beyond this point greatly increases the likelihood of tumbling the aircraft again upon recovery.
8. Stabilize the aircraft. Apply opposite aileron to counter the roll, and pull out of the dive to return to level flight.

Congratulations! You have successfully recovered from a flat spin in the Pigpen!

Some other methods also work, depending on the characteristics of the spin. If the aircraft's nose is pointed upwards more than 60 degrees (a spinning tailslide), apply full throttle and extend the airbrakes. This will slow your rate of spin and rate of descent enough that the aircraft will eventually enter a conventional stall, at which point Fly-By-Wire can be disengaged and normal stall recovery procedures carried out.