No spin training in the US?

"Mark Morissette" wrote in message
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As for 2500 AGL you quoted, that's wayyyyy low.. Our training area
is about 650' asl, and we were climbing through to 4500' before each
spin... It was a comfortable height, and even after recovery from 2
or 3 turns in the spin, I never felt uncomfortably low.

The only inadvertant spin that I ever encountered was in an S2B... We were
doing 90 degree bank 90 degree turns and I didn't have the ball centered and
ended up in an accelerated stall and then a roll through 270 degrees in the
opposite direction to the turn in what seemed like less than a second...
Next thing I knew, the nose was pointed towards the ground... I'm not sure
of our altitude since it's been a few years since it happened, but I
seriously doubt that it was more than 2000 ft MSL (which basically equals
AGL in Houston)... Coming out of it was no big deal in the S2B with plenty
of room to spare... The instructor even had time to ask me if I knew what I
had done and how I was going to recover from it...