Originally Posted by
Sunfish
Rich, conventional wisdom is that the practice of teaching stall/spin training caused more accidents, therefore it was removed from the PPL syllabus.
All you get is a demonstration with the admonition, "don't do this". The syllabus deliberately warns against teaching a student how to spin or practice a recovery apart from the "dancing on the rudder to pick up a dropped wing" BS.
I had to sign up for aeros to get taught to spin and recover. Still rusty on the process because there isn't an acrobatic aircraft for training within 100 miles of where I live.
There are some interesting observations from driver training. You see the occasional A Current Affair story from some driver training organisation (or course with no commercial interest in the outcome...) saying "if only people were taught advanced driving techniques they'd know what to do if they lose control." Which on the face of it sounds sensible. Except that where it has been tried, from memory in Scandinavian countries, it had the opposite effect and fatal accidents actually went up. I understand mainly because it meant people learnt a skill then forgot in 3 months, but retained the overconfidence. Flying isn't driving of course and there is some opportunity to make people demonstrate the skills occasionally, but still...