"Jim Carter" wrote

Trying to make the pursuit safer by eliminating training accidents by
removing certain skill tests from the practical flight test didn't do
anyone much good I suspect. It did however create commercial pilots who've
never been upside down or in a fully developed spin before. I don't see
that as an improvement, but maybe I'm overlooking something.

The only thing you are overlooking is the total death tally.

There once were more people killed in spin training than were killed in spin
accidents.

They stopped spin training, and there were still people killed in actual
spins, but not as many as the previous totals of training and real spin
accidents.

I think many older instructors still sneak in some "real" fully developed
spin training. There are also the "upset training" schools, that have well
trained instructors and equipment capable of handling the abuse. My
personal feeling is that they are probably a "good thing."

I wonder how many people trained since the elimination of spin skills on the
PP test, have actually done fully developed spins? Also, I wonder how many
have gone through one of the "unusual attitude" and "upset training"
schools?
--
Jim in NC