I suspect that most of this opposition is engendered by people who are terrified of spins themselves because nobody ever taught them how to deal with what is, under the correct circumstances, a fairly benign flight condition.
I can assure you that I have no fear of spinning, was taught to spin and recover and am perfectly capable and current to teach it.
What I am saying is that in my opinion there is no place for it anymore in basic training. That teaching people to avoid the spin in the first place is a safer and more beneficial system considering the numbers of aircraft in the GA flight that are not approved for spinning.
The training indsutry as a whole worldwide reached the same conclusion so I am pretty sure there must be some merit in this thinking.
Yeah... So then when something DOES happen and the poor guy finds himself in the situation his instructor inadequately prepared him to avoid or, God Forbid, he has a mechanical/weather/judgement mishap, we just chalk it up to rotten luck.
I am very curious, please tell me how your spam can driver, flying along straight and level will suddenly depart from normal flight in to a death spin that if he had training he could have recovered from? The only other area that has a demonstrated history of accidental spins is the departure and turn to final neither of which I am sure that even the highest trained of sky gods is going to recover a bog standard spam can from.
If people do want to go and learn to spin and recover for the fun of it then there are limitless ways of going out and getting the experience. As I have mentioned before in the UK the amazing Ultimate High will put anyone who crosses their palm with silver through some of the most gruelling upset recovery drills you can imagine. That is the place to learn about advanced handling.
But thank you for resorting to the usual PPRUNE fallback of being insulting if people do not agree with you.