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Are parachutes required for spins in the U.S.?

In the US, chutes are required for spin training that is not a specifically
required part of flight training. So a 'chute was required when I was a student
pilot taking non-required spin training, but not when I was training for my CFI
ticket. I don't really understand the thinking behind that.

Now here's the conundrum:
Inadvertent stall/spins kill as many in Canada as they do in the U.S.
The training doesn't seem to prevent it. ...
Learning spin entry and recovery by rote doesn't increase awareness of the
situations that can bring it
on, and Transport Canada now wants to see spin scenario training.

This sounds like a good idea. In my opinion, it should be done fairly early in
flight training: Not so early as to scare off new students, but early enough to
impress permanantly on fresh minds how much altutude is lost in a spin. You
don't want that to happen in the pattern!

Things like the low-speed skidding turn, departure stall, climbing
turn stalls and accelerated stalls, all the things that lead to a
spin.

Yes!

Vaughn