Originally Posted by jedinein

When you're in a Cirrus, you slam the controls hard (we will die if this doesn't work hard) while stomping on the rudder. That should break through the jam. If that doesn't work, pull the chute.

If you're in other SEL pistons, it's quite possible that something is caught in the pulleys, perhaps a screwdriver or a flashlight, thus slamming the controls hard might snap the screwdriver shaft, or cause enough cable bounce to clear the jam. On older aircraft, a stuck pulley could have caused the cable to thin out, with thicker areas adjacent to the thin area, thus once again, slamming the controls hard could yank the thick area through the jammed pulley.

My friend Barry Schiff has an article about this in one of his books, as well as some video footage floating around. A Cessna 172 can be banked, or bank corrected, by opening and holding doors open. A Piper will yaw and somewhat be convinced to stop turning with the doors. A Cirrus will yaw, and be quite ugly, but does have a little roll and yaw control with the doors.

Pitch-wise, trim works very nice in most aircraft. A Cirrus might have a jammed pitch trim cartridge, so slamming the controls to the stops should clear it.

Don't worry if you crash, the impact will clear up the jam and the NTSB or FAA will blame the crash on the PIC losing control for an undetermined reason.