vector4fun said:
One drill my original instructor used, which has stuck with me to this day is to have the student put hands in lap while instructor apply (nearly) full aft elevator and neutral aileron. Have student keep wings approximately level with rudder alone. Aircraft gently bucks and rocks in/out of a mild power off stall.
- I've never seen the point of this, what does the student learn?
At ab initio they need to be able to recognise and recover from: the approach to the stall, the full stall, the spiral dive (and ideally the spin). Where does "holding the aircraft stalled and using rudder to keep the wings level" fit into this? I agree that you want them to be able to deal correctly with a wing drop at the stall but the error that needs to be trained out of them is using aileron - having hands in the lap doesn't achieve this.
Most benign GA aircraft won't spin if you don't let them yaw.
Yaw, wingdrop or some other cause of asymmetric angle of attack is required for any aircraft to spin.
PostScript, added 28/Apr.
Maybe the idea is that the student puts their hands in the instructor's lap
there might be some merit in this with the occasional stude.