Hello,
thanks for the reply.
For the engine failure exercise, I had an Instructor with who I would go really really low, like 100 feet, and once, even less: i remember asking him ''are we landing on that field or what??''.
That 500 feet is a good rule. We had a accident last month where the instructor and student were killed. They hit power lines over a river....
Here in Canada, we have to spin the aircraft for the commercial flight test.
I understand it is good to know and practice the recovery, but why would we learn how to put the aircraft in a spin? I always thought that this should be for the Instructor Rating as they have to demonstrate it to the students. But why is it on the syllabus for the Commercial Training?