If it wasn't for the blonde tresses wafting in the fresh air in my frontal vision from under and behind a leather flying helmet, ( my instructor was an older woman of about 25 years), I believe I might have chucked flying in on the spot.
The up and over, followed by the rotating of green and brown patchwork fields is still etched in my memory.
After several spinning exercises I actually began to enjoy it, and on moving to Cherokees many years later, made it a habit to go spinning several times a year.
Now with the realisation that if anything goes wrong an inextricable situation exists, I no longer indulge.
As current airplanes are usually not cleared for spinning, and are not as prone as the old timers to enter a spin, is there really a need to take the risks of spinning aircraft in the UK perhaps tens of times weekly?
The powers that be appear to have decided that flying training should target flying in a manner such as to avoid spinning, and accident statistics seem to confirm the correctness of that decision.
That is not to say spins do not form part of aerobatic flying, but aerobatic flying is not PPL flying, and not all instructors will necessarily feel comfortable with spinning, particularly in non aerobatic aircraft.