many of you may not remember but for recent students coming through the cessna ranks, the most scary and yet educationational part of training is the spin recovery. in some jurisdictions, one no longer needs to have to go through that but personally i think getting into that position in a very forgiving aircraft (for me cessna 172) was mostly educational not for the recovery procedures themselves (you basically do nothing and the aircraft does it by itself... sort of..) but for being put in a position of having to think when you are looking straight down at the ground which is seemingly spinning out of control. very good mental excercise!