First of all:
Consequently the US instructor would not check me out, yet a UK instructor at the FTO said as it is not a JAA requirement I should be signed off
What airspace it is in, or whether it is a JAA or an FAA requirement, is not relevant. What is relevant is that the school you are getting checked out on
own the aircraft. As the owners, they are entirely free to determine what checkout they need. If I were the owner of an aircraft which you wanted to rent, and I wanted you to be able to juggle 3 apples whilst using the CRP-1 to wipe your backside, you'd have to either learn to do that (I suspect you could probably already do one, or even both, of these, but maybe not together!), or else go somewhere else.
As for power on stalls, if you are deliberately trying to get into one the attitude is so high that it is hard to see a situation where you can actually get into such an attitude. But that is when you are looking out the front. The times when you are more likely to stall will be when you are
not looking out the front, e.g. during a turn when your attention might be focused on what you are turning towards, out the side window. Or, as HWD says, during a go-around when you may be distracted by the flaps (which, incidentally, will lower the stalling attitude back to something more sensible,
and make it more vicious), or the radio. In that situation, you may well find yourself with the nose much higher (or even much lower) than you intended it to be......
As for the specific problem you're having:
the right wing drops at the stall, and I kept over compensating with left rudder and spinning it the other way
I would hope your instructor has told you this already, but pick something ahead (a cloud is probably the best thing if you're going to be raising the nose a fair way - much easier to do these stalls on a slightly cloudy day!), and use the rudder to keep it straight ahead. Don't worry about wings dropping - you can sort that out after recovering from the stall. But if you keep that cloud straight in front of you the whole time the stall warner is going off, through into the stall, and then into the recovery, it should work out fine.
Personally, I don't ask people to do power-on stalls as part of a check-out. Power-on
incipient stalls, yes - but the only fully-developed stall I ask people to demonstrate is a clean stall. That's because I was taught to place the emphasis on recognition and avoidance rather than recovery. But don't dismiss this as a pointless exercise - if you can nail these power-on stalls, you will understand, and be able to recover from, clean stalls much much better!
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