I know that at my school, the 2 hours stall-spin awareness is often severely curtailed
Which 2 hours is that?
To the best of my knowledge, there is no requirement for any minimum amount of stall-spin awareness, and there hasn't been since the introduction of JAR. There are a number of different stalling scenarios to be covered, the aim being for the student to understand the symptoms of the approaching stall and the fully developed stall, and to be able to recover with minimum height loss. Once a student can perform these excercises satisfactorilly (and by that I mean that the student has demonstrated sufficient knowledge of the stall and the recovery of the stall to be able to carry out the exercises), move on to circuits. For some students, this will take less than an hour. For others it will take several hours.
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