A question from a non pilot...
I remember reading various accounts of pilot training in days of yore, all of which featured the student, often in a Tiger Moth, having to deliberately induce a stall (and a spin, I remember), and then recover from it, before they were allowed to solo, in order to obtain a PPL...
I had always assumed, rightly or wrongly, that if you needed to be able to do that for a PPL, an airline pilot would have definitely needed to do it! I get the impression from the subtext of some of the comments in this thread that there are people out there flying commercial passenger jets who have never recovered any aircraft, not even a tiddler, nor even a flight simulator, from a proper developed stall, let alone a spin, because they are never ever supposed to get themselves into that situation in the first place and thus recover from it isn't part of training any more...
Is that really the case?