mad_jock in post #13:
They should add 2 circuits with all the instruments covered into the ppl test, that would sort a lot of this pish out.
My father instructed in AT-6s during the big one (Harvard to my UK friends).
Part of the syllabus included IAS covered below 90 kt., so the student (WASPs in this case) learned to fly by feel, sound and attitude. Of course the instructor's pit still had a "live" IAS, but seldom was intervention called for.
And no, for the unwashed, this 600 hp taildragger had no stall warning!