The quickest way to kill aviation is through the regulators and those costs to pay for it all which is making aviation more unnatractive by the day to the ordinary guy in the street.
Quite right. But before the ordinary guy in the street gets to see the regulation they have to learn to fly. If we make learning to fly unattractive by forcing unneeded and uncomfortable training onto people it does the same thing!!!
As I have said many time through this post I am not anti spinning, I am just saying that there is a time and place for it. It should be as it is now an elective skill for confidence building and handling enhancement at a time chosen by the pilot not a forced skill because of some romantic notion that being able to do one makes you a sky god or it separates the wheat from the chaff!!! Otherwise I do not see any genuine SAFETY case for returning it to the PPL course. However as I have said before, if someone can provide me with hard data that shows a need for it then I am open minded enough to review it.