Very interesting. This subject does seem to come up from time to time, but I don't recall ever seeing so many posters as in favour of spin training as on this thread. Wonder what's changed since last time it was discussed?
Personally, I agree that spinning should be demonstrated. An inadvertant wing-drop during a planned stall can be disconcerting - I've never encountered an inadvertant spin, and I know enough to know that I don't want to experience it, but I'm pleased that I've had the training to be able to recover from it without panicking if it does happen (given enough height, of course).
Besides which, spinning is fun - why would anyone not want to do it?
The arguments against are that it costs students extra money (crap - anyone who won't spend an extra hour training to do something which may save their life shouldn't be flying), that it puts people off because they fear they will get sick when they spin (valid point - but again, if someone isn't able to keep their cool when the brown stuff hits the fan, should they be flying?) and that spin training results in more accidents during the training than the number of accidents it prevents (haven't seen any figures either way on this one, just abstract arguments.)
FFF
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