And the sucker holes are everywhere,
.. isn't that the simple truth. I was lucky, I did my PPL on an ATC scholarship. Finished min time and Jack/Stan (RNAC) figured we should spend the remaining 15 hours or so (before the RAAF found out I'd finished the licence) under the hood doing circuits and aerobatics limited panel. Helped to save my bacon on a few occasions since ... That first trap for me saw me up into the scud on the clocks, stall turn reversal and, fortunately, the way in hadn't clagged in totally. Probably would have been a different ending had I not had some I/F aeros behind me and not all that long before.