How about too bad its not a part of PPL...not teaching a pilot or wannabe about something that can kill them and how to fix it, seems to me to be setting people up for failure.
The sentiment makes sense, but the requirement to actually enter a spin and recover was removed because more people were augering in to the deck during spin training than due to inadvertent spins. I guess the government figured it wasn't worth killing 10 student pilots to save 5 others.
Not discussing the proper method of recovery, however, seems like a poor lack of distinction between not having a requirement to teach it and the good judgement to do so anyway.
Something similar happened to me once. My second solo in a 152. I was instructed to take the aircraft to the east of the field at 3500 feet, practice steep turns, approaches to stalls, and then return for pattern work. Executed 60 degree AoB turns to right, then left, then proceeded to do an approach to a stall ( I think it was power-off). Stall warning was written up as inoperative, so I did not intend to enter the stall, only to get the control mushiness and buffeting and then back off. Instead in the blink of an eye I had lost about 500 feet and had gone through about 110 degrees of heading change. I just about put my right foot through the firewall I was mashing the pedal so hard. I think I also was putting aileron inputs in (shouldn't have, but this was all gut reaction) and it leveled out and stopped rotation after maybe 2 seconds or so (don't know for sure, time seems to do strange things sometimes). Me being the fearless whipper-snapper I was at that point (this was 7 years ago) I did another approach to a stall and the same thing happened, except I was ready for it and recovered much more quickly. I never told my instructor about it, but spent the next couple of weeks thinking about it. My conclusion was that fuel cross fed from the right tank to the left tank during the steep turn to the left, causing the CG to move left of center and the strange stall characteristics. Don't know how feasible that is, but I watched the ball like a hawk the second time I did it, and I was coordinated.
As a random tidbit, the requirement for spin training was removed from the Private Pilot syllabus in 1949, and since then spin related fatalities have continued to decline steadily.
