As for your comment on the PC 12 accident. Anybody flying a 4 Million dollar high performance aircraft should IMO opinion have undergone formal upset training. Again the focus of all the upset training I have seen is early recognition of the upset and the most effective methods of returning the aircraft to controlled flight. I have not seen one of these programs that lets the aircraft get into a fully developed spin before starting a recovery. In any case the ultimate cause of the PC 12 crash was not the inability to recover from a spin it was extremely poor decision making by the pilot when manoevering around convective weather
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BPF
I think you are missing my point! The PC12 was recorded in a descent rate of 10000 fpm so the aircraft was in some sort of spiral dive or dive before it broke up BUT that could have started as a stall /spin and developed into a spiral dive with the pilot believing he was in a spin!
I came into flying from car racing 30 years ago. A car will understeer, oversteer and slide. You can teach a normal driver to avoid getting into such situations but people are not perfect one day the driver inadvertanly gets into and understeer puts more lock in to avoid running into the brick wall and bang!
Spins stalls spiral dives are in themselves irrelevant it is more about identification and feeling comfortable with what the aircraft may throw at you.
Which brings us back to the original poster who is scared of stalls because one went wrong and filled his head with fear of the unknown.
He probably thinks tha if he was on his own and stalled he may enter a situation he is not familiar with and untrained to handle.
I suggest he goes in an aerobatic aircraft with the correct instructor and learns what the PPL syllabus no longer contains.
BTW you cannot throw out statistics from the 1940s as verification of modern training standards because it is not!
Pace