In have about 10 hours in my PPL logbook, but I have more hours in small planes, I flew with a lot of friends, some of them are private pilots or even commercial pilots and they told me they have no idea of jammed controls, they don't know any local crashes because of that problem, the same answer from my instructor, that's why I asked here on this forum where a lot of experienced pilots write and maybe some of you heard about these things.
As I said, I use to think about possible scenarios and what should I do in those cases and I found that some of them are not covered in the PPL training or in manuals and it seems that instructors have no intention to tell us about them (if we don't ask) during training... maybe these problems are too rare and usually deadly to talk about them or even instructors know nothing about them from their training.
Also, as some of you said, there are risks we can manage, for example an engine failure is not usually an out of control situation, we are trained to glide, to choose the best spot, to avoid populated ares etc. but after we are trained for these problems, I'm thinking, are there any out of controls sitations? And then I find that a deflected jammed control is one of them and it seems to be unique, because excepting a structural failure (I really don't worry about it, I think it's almost impossible for a well-maintained and inspected plane to lose a wing in normal 1G flight as long as it can handle about 4-5G or to disintegrate if there is no bomb on board or stuff like that, for me, that's really the last cause to crash), I didn't find any possible failures which can lead to an out of control situation, maybe a heavy spread fire, but we know to land as soon as possible if we have signs of fire, even strange smell. If you know other scenarios, I'm really curious to know them
I know there are hundreds of causes for a crash but all of them seem to be manageable excepting what I said above, even if the manageable ones happen more often, the fact that you can do your best to avoid them and if it happens it's not an out of control situation makes you feel pretty confident and you know that whatever happens you are in control. That's why for me it's not ok that you have nothing to do if your yoke jams deflected... maybe using just small roll rates in turns is the solution, is it? Just kidding
Anyway, don't think I would give up because of this or I'll fly worried about it, I'm already too addicted, so there's no way to stop me being in the air
About aerobatics and parachutes, someone said that it's hard to escape from a rolling plane because you can't open the doors, what about canopies? It seems that there are a lot of aerobatic planes which have canopies, not doors.