Originally Posted by
BluSdUp
European TREs and line trainers has possible never done a spin in a Cessna 172, never mind recovered a MAX from a full stall/incipient spin!!
I would argue that depends. Having been through the flight school of the legacy airline in my country i would say they all have. Back in my time it was a few hours of spinning in a T-34, later on they switched to G-120s when the Mentors started to get serious wing-falling-off-problems. And of course, that school, until recently and now again, does sponsored abinitio training. Of course, in a modular training it might be different, as the student has to organize and take the financial hit himself (come to think of it, i had to pay myself as well, but the spin mission was simply part of the training, no getting out of it).