Yeah, they took spin training out. Teach you how to recover before
agravating the stall into a spin.

So here I am doing one of my last solo practice runs before the check
ride. Well, it *was* a tired old bird (C152) that had just gotten a new
rebuilt (20 hours). T/O Departure stall practice and I got the plane
*out of coordinated flight*, firewalled the throttle just as I dropped
the nose.

Flash of blue/white, sudden stars and then Green, Brown, Grey, Green,
Black, Brown.... and upside down (or so it seemed) and I had a headache
(bashed my head on the door frame).

Boy was I glad my father talked me though spin recovery years earlier.
Boy was I glad I had read the book on standard spin recovery. Recovered
at 3/4 turn, thottle off and 135Knotts (145 is VNE) at start of pull
out. Level at 1100AGL, had started at about 2300AGL.

I had to fly around for about 30 minutes just to calm down so I could
land.

I think spin training needs to be done, if nothing more than while on
the ground explaining what you have to do to survive to talk about it.
Later,
Steve.T
PP ASEL/Instrument