What is emerging from this thread is a disagreement over the best time in one's training to experience and recognise a spin,
Anytime one can get killed alone in an aircraft and most definately before carrying passengers especially if they are my kids.
I do not regard spinning as a single item but put it in the same box as all unusual attitude manouvres.
You may as well say no pilots need to do steep turns as you can teach avoidance by limiting them to rate one turns. Where do you stop. A spiral dive can be mistaken for a spin yet needs a different recovery. Both can be unpleasant manouvres but it is important to understand both and experience both.
I would seriously require student pilots to have 1 to 2 hours in an aerobatic plane to run through the whole regime of unusual attitudes and maybe add it as the last item before recieving a PPL and carrying passengers. Take that hour or two off the existing PPL schedule so as not to add costs.
Pilots have to be able to handle an aircraft not just fly it like ill equipt zombies.
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