Originally Posted by
sapperkenno
Which is a valid point... Can anyone remember the last time they had to recover from an unintentional stall? I certainly can't.
Can you remember the last time you used a life jacket? Yet if you fly over water you still carry one. Same's probably true of an ELB...
For me at least half the point of teaching stalls/spins in basic pilot training is to become familiar with that it feels like so you can recognise a stalling wing-drop as distinct from a simple bit of turbulent air, so that you might pause befre simply whacking the stick/yoke over to pick it up.
And of the remaining half I'd say 45% was simply to give pilots confidence that the aeroplane can do something like a stall and nothing breaks. So [IMHO] only 5% of the reason is to equip non-aerobatic pilots to recover from stalls/spins.
PDR