Even relatively light aeroplanes take thousands, rather than hundreds of feet.
Which ones, and how many thousands?
[Doesn't really matter.... whoever it was that had made that quote above has edited it out in the last couple of hours.]
Of the types I have spun, all will recover promptly if recovery action is initiated as soon as the spin starts - which is what a trained pilot would do in an inadvertent spin incident.
Having said that, the pilot who knew how to recover probably wouldn't have spun in the first place..... And, in my view, spin training should be included in the PPL syllabus.
TerryJones - Spin training for glider pilots has a much greater importance, due to the likelihood of inadvertently spinning. Turning in a turbulent thermal at just a few knots faster than Vs carries a high risk of spinning (as I discovered one bumpy day in a Janus....
)