G.R. Patterson III wrote:

Toks Desalu wrote:

And I wonder why they FAA removed spin training as requirement in early
years?


They removed it because many people were dying during spin recovery training. They
decided to teach people to avoid stalls and recover promptly from inadvertent stalls,
because an aircraft will not spin unless it stalls first. The FAA feels that the
reduced fatality rate proves they made the correct decision.

Canada removed spin training in the late 1990's for the same reason. We
kept it for decades after the U.S. gave it up, but our stall/spin fatality
rate was actually higher than the rate in the U.S. By the time I did my PPL
in 2002, spin training was already just a memory.

Transport Canada produced a report on the issue, basically concluding that
stall/spin accidents almost always happen too low for recovery, and since
practicing spin recoveries was killing the occasional student and
instructor, it made no sense to keep it on the syllabus.

One interest artifact of all that, though, is that since spin training was
part of the Canadian PPL until the late 1990's, my unscientific observation
is that Canadian flying schools are much less likely than American schools
to own Piper Cherokees/Warriors/Archers, since most Pipers from the 1970's
on do not allow intentional spins.


All the best,


David