RE. "Spin training was taken out of the syllabus because there were more people coming to harm doing this than from spin accidents."
I'd like to know where this comes from. Got any qualified reference to it? Statistics?
I do remember seeing that a vast majority of fatal accidents were 'loss of control' ie stall/spin when really they were only dealing with an engine failure or some other less fatal event.
Perhaps that is too great a thread-slip here. Just interested.