"It is incredible to me that anyone would consider regularly operating
an airplane without a thorough familiarity with the stall/spin
characteristics." Hmmm.

It is equally incredible to me that anyone would consider regularly
operating an automobile without a thorough familiarity with the high
speed oversteer/understeer skid characteristics on uneven country roads
in the rain at night. With no headlights. And bad shocks.

Let's learn to operate every piece of equipment at the very edge of its
envelope so we are pretty sure we can deal with most anything that
arises. Then we don't have to worry as much about how we operate it.
Good plan.

Note to a different writer: "Experience counts"? Sounds logical,
especially if it is the experienced one talking. Unfortunately, aviation
statistics don't seem to support that conclusion. It certainly counts
for some things, but, for safety, the right mental attitude beats flight
hours and ratings every time, IMHO.

In the explosives business, there is a saying, "Familiarity breeds
contempt". Guard against getting too comfortable with what you do all
the time and have never been hurt doing.

Brian Barbata
N104PT
LIVPT 90%

PS: Real world: If deep stall/spin recovery training made us safer,
where are the insurance discounts and FAA requirements, particularly on
Experimentals? PPS: The place to practice super hero airplane recovery is in a full
motion/full view simulator at Flight Safety. Unfortunately, they don't
have serious sims for our type airplanes, and the jet sims they have
that will really get you sweating/barfing rent out at like $1,000+ per
hour.