What I don't quite understand is that everyone's done basic handling - i.e. taking the aircraft up to a safe height and playing with speed, angles of bank, different configs, finding what it takes to stall the aircraft and so on. In my experience in the trainers I've flown I've found I have to be really and deliberately unfeeling to provoke anything like a stall - such as slowing down until the controls are *really* sloppy then pulling right back ignoring all stall warners.
So it worries me with the above dire warnings of the fatal turn to final and so on - am I missing something that could catch me out big style or is there not enough "flying by feel" taught?