Gee. This looks like a nice place to misbehave:

The military trains people with NO flying time for the purpose of
accomplishing a mission. Those missions are not all expected to end with a
landing back home but need to succeed in other ways. On the other hand,
commercial aviation and sport aviation quite often involve pilots with much
more flying time and each and every flight is expected to end safely.

So, while ignorance is bliss, training is the only way to improve ones
chances of completing a flight safely.

While insurance companies do not want helicopter trainees to practice full
autorotations, your only chance for walking without a cane is knowing how to
do one when you need to. So, the first time you do one is the first time you
need to. Not very smart.

Being an old geezer, I have a million examples.

If the training is killing people, then maybe the training procedures need
tweaking. But canceling training is a very bad idea. In the end, the Air
Force spun a zillion of us out of the sky in T-37's with only a few deaths
along the way. We were required to speak and perform the T-37 spin recovery
procedures with a calm voice while the little ******* started wrapping up.
But to this day, I can recite the -37 spin recovery procedure in my sleep
and perform it without thinking twice.

"Mark James Boyd" wrote in message
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In article ,
JJ Sinclair wrote:
It's winter, I'm bored and I haven't started any good controversies (this
year)
so here goes:

In the early 50's the USAF had a policy to give jump training to all
aircrew
personnel. They soon learned that they were getting twice the injuries in
training that they were experiencing in real bail-outs. They decided to
stop
the actual jump training and just give PLF and kit deployment, etc
training.

So, JJ asks, In light of recent events that show its been reining
Puchaz's, Do
we really want to teach full blown spins? Isn't spin entry and immediate
recovery, all we should be doing?

JJ Sinclair

With three times as many fatalities in training than flying (helicopters),
one wonders the wisdom of practicing hundreds of autorotations during
helicopter training as well.