Spin Recovery Training Before First Solo?

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The thread "Any Spins Lately" made me wonder. If an instructor does
not teach spin recovery, is it worthwhile to find someone that teaches
spin recovery and take a few lessons before the first solo. If not,
then when would be a good time to do upset and spin recovery training.
Before my first cross country solo or after I get my certificate.

In my case my instructor is close by, but does not do spin recovery
training. I am quite happy with him and have no plans on switching.
However, there is an aerobatics instructor about 60 miles away that I
could use for spin training.

[george]

On Sep 5, 2:21 pm, wrote:
> The thread "Any Spins Lately" made me wonder. If an instructor does
> not teach spin recovery, is it worthwhile to find someone that teaches
> spin recovery and take a few lessons before the first solo. If not,
> then when would be a good time to do upset and spin recovery training.
> Before my first cross country solo or after I get my certificate.
>
> In my case my instructor is close by, but does not do spin recovery
> training. I am quite happy with him and have no plans on switching.
> However, there is an aerobatics instructor about 60 miles away that I
> could use for spin training.

We had a stalling regime in our training before solo.
This included recovery from fully developed stalls (incipient spins)
leading at the PPL level as recovery with minimum height loss
The instructor had us spin the aircraft from the getgo.