Jim Logajan wrote in
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
wrote:
Does anyone know why the FAA ****e-canned the spin recovery
demonstration requirement in the PTS? Was it fear of litigation
(since a spin might lead to a crash, after all)?


No, it was because the figured they were losing more in spin training
than they were in accidental spins.
In the late fifties, I think.

Just FYI, Rich Stowell considers that reason a likely myth, as he
writes he

http://www.apstraining.com/article10...ning_sep03.htm

Of the aerobatic schools that continue to do spin training he notes
that during the course of ~250,000 spins, there were 0 fatalities over
the period studied. In the above link he quotes the reasons given for
rescinding spin training in the 1949 CAR Amendment 20-3 and notes that
spin training accidents were not mentioned as a reason.


OK, first time I heard that. It might be that they were trying to make
aviation more accesable to people...


Bertie