Spin training during primary?

[Mike Smith]

What is the collective thoughts on spin training. Can my CFI demonstrate spins if I ask him to? I know it isn't in the PTS, but in my newbie exuberance I think I want to know how to recovery from a spin.

 

[Jim Logajan]

What is the collective thoughts on spin training.

The FAA stopped requiring spin training because they wanted to see more pilots die.

Kidding. You know it is the opposite - they determined it was an exercise that actually killed more pilots than it saved. And that the killer spins happened most frequently at altitudes too low to recover from, so what was the point?

Not much point in them beyond having fun or aerobatics. So sayeth the statistics, or so it has been alleged.

 

[Jim Logajan]

I'm curious when that was. The requirement had been dropped before I started in 1969.

According to several sources, it was dropped from U.S. private pilot airplane requirements in June 1949; e.g.:

http://www.aopa.org/asf/ntsb/stall_spin.html

Perhaps Shepherd is thinking of instructor training?