When I was a student pilot, I memorized my aircraft's spin recovery procedure and assumed I would be able to get out of a spin if I was ever foolish enough to get into one. It wasn't until I did spins while becoming a CFI did I realize that I don't think I actually could have recalled that information if I got into one. The first CFI training spin was so intense and caught me so off guard, even though I was expecting it. It took me a few seconds to catch my breath and recover from the spin. After doing a few, I loved every second of it and can definitely recover before the plane even leaves the incipient stage. Looking back, how would I have reacted as a freshly minted private pilot with just the rote level of spin recovery in my brain? It is very intense first time, and a lot of aircraft seem to need to recover pretty quickly. With the change in regs to not require private pilot applicants to receive actual spin training, I question whether that actually makes us safer. I have read the articles about spin training accidents during those times, but part of me thinks there would be less of those accidents than actual LOC-I accidents if student pilots were required to at least experience and recover from a spin. Not saying it needs to be done on a Checkride, just saying maybe it would help to at least give the experience.
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