Apparently, the turn-back technique is coming back on the syllabus for PPLs.
At a slight tangent to the original topic, stall/spin accidents are still killing a lot of people on an annual basis. Is there something fundamentally wrong with the training people are receiving these days that they fail to maintain proper flying speed in a forced landing?
I hope the mandatory profficiency checks will give people the opportunity to practice these things more and check this rather unfortubate trend.