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43 Air School in SA not only teach spinning as part of the PPL course but also mandate solo time for the students to practice; anyboby else doing this
Everyone in SA HAS to do it because it's a mandatory part of the syllabus - dual AND solo. I did it when I did my SA PPL and although the rumour was that lots of people just cruised around the GFA on their solo spinning detail, I did two, and I think succeeded in convincing myself that (a) the aircraft would recover if you did what you were trained to do and (b) I could recover from a spin. It's difficult to fit spinning into a UK PPL course because (a) you have to have the right aircraft and (b) you have to have the right student. On the latter, I reckon most instructors would choose to offer a demo of spin recovery to students who are at the more competent end of the ability scale. But it's actually the less able students who should be getting the training, not the whizz kids.
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