Well as an excuse for both myself and FFF. The JAR instructors course doesn't actually have spin pattering. You get made to do one in your test but you don't have to patter it. Its more to show you can recover from a student induced spin not actually teach it.
And i don't rememeber the instructor saying anything about Instruments. In fact there wasn't a TC or TI on the C152 I did my course on. Its not required for VFR flight.
As such the spin isn't taught any more since it was pulled from the PPL. And for some instrctors the first time they will be in a spin is on thier FIC.
Next question is why bother with a TC in light aircraft. Why not fit TI to them all.
hugh Flung_dung there is no such thing as a standard spin recovery
MJ