This came up in a recent thread.
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...threadid=85549
The AIC isn't intended to be prescriptive or definitive albeit that it has been (mis)understood to be so. The guidance given in the AIC is of course very sensible.
My first "BFR", to borrow the American terminology more or less followed the AIC. For the next one, which I might do quite soon as I'm shortly into the second year of my current certificate, I think I'll spend most of the hour trying to stop my stall turns being so rubbish, with some stalls, a spin and maybe a PFL thrown in.