Thanks for the advice everyone. I don't fly f/w aircraft very often, but since I do sometimes I decided I ought to have had a go at spin recovery. I'm planning on doing it with an instructor I know well, who's been instructing on C152s for years and years, and she's so calm and laid back about it that I'm beginning to be less scared. I'm still not expecting to like it, but you never know.
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Whirly
To fly is human, to hover, divine.