Posted for "John Hafen" <j.hafen@comcast.net>:

 Thanks Bob:
 
 If I remember correctly, once you got into a flat spin in the F4, it didn't
 matter much what the checklist said.  If you got beyond "Stick Forward,
 Ailerons and Rudder Neutral, If not recovered maintain full forward stick
 and deploy drag chute" the next thing to do was climb overboard.
 
 John Hafen
 

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 Having flown military fighters for 20+ years, I can tell you without
 reservation that the original checklists provided by the
 manufacturers--Lockheed, General Dynamics and McDonald Douglass in my
 case--were "starting points" for what we came to use over the years. Every
 one was constantly refined, adjusted and (in the case of the F-4 spin
 recovery procedure, completely rewritten), based on experience during actual
 operations. The emergency procedures sections were especially volatile, and
 changed frequently because of "lessons learned," many the hard way.
"""