Sounds like the instructor should have pushed the nose down and headed for a landings..quickly. If the plane was tail heavy, and I wasn't there so don't know, but if it was then all that extra elevator would lead to BIG problems. I'd have pushed the nose down and steered with the rudder for an immediate landing.

Hey mimoore67...I used to fly with the Irish Hills gang a long time ago at a grass field just East of Brooklyn. LOTS of fun there! Is Bill Lent (think I got that right) still around? Tell Him Joe said hello and ask him if he remembers me flat spinning my Sig KIWI into the corn field 'cause both of us were laughing so hard and I forgot who was flying the plane as we counted the spins[X(]!! Didn't really do much damage at all in that tall corn. Lots of good memories out there...er...down there (from here anyway)

Soft landings.

Joe