including the distinction between spin and spiral dive mentioned by Pace
This is why I feel stalling, spinning, spiral dives should be packaged as one.
One can lead to the other and back again.
This was apparent from the radar traces of the very tragic high altitude crash of the PC12 flown by a ppl.
The aircraft appeared to stall a number of times as well as spinning and then broke up in a spiral dive.
Backpacker there have been equally a number of loss of control incidents at fairly high altitude in Cirrus aircraft where luckily the chute saved the occupants.
I am not for one minute decrying recovery at incipient as this is the most important factor of all but I am realist enough to know that situations occur where the pilot does not recover from incipient because they are distracted enter a storm or whatever.
As I read it from the original poster of the thread he is scared of stalling as he does not have the confidence in being able to recover if that stall was mishandled and developed further a case of fear of the unknown. The only way to remove that fear is to make the unknown known.
Pace