Just to correct an urban myth here...
Spin Training has ALWAYS been in the syllabus. It has NEVER been removed.
Ex11A - Spin Avoidance
MANDATORY. Recovery from incipient spins. (Incipient spin being entered from clean stall @ stall warner full rudder + back elevator - when uncommanded roll occurs - unload).
Ex11B - Fully Developed Spins
Optional.
Your training organisation MUST provide for 2 hours of stall/spin training under JAR. That means Ex10B.1,10B.2 & 11A.
If you HAVE NOT received ex 11A then you seriously want to go somewhere else for your training in future...NEVER go back there again as they have obviously not given you FULL training as required under JAR FCL-1 AMC.
I recently stopped instructing at a school and one of the reasons I was extremely unhappy was that they had an extremely slack attitude (read: unbelieveably unacceptable attitude) towards ex11A. (i.most instructors didnt do it and the CFI failed to ensure it was...). Personally I dont want to be associated with such establishments as an instructor.
On the subject of fully developed spins - your flight instructor(s)should have offered you the opportunity of full developed spins as part of your training, unless of course your school flies a/c not cleared to spin or does not allow spinning in club a/c.
However....ex 11A should be taught in ALL circustances in ALL aircraft types....
Sorry for the serious tone....but it does annoy me that people are missing vital training...