Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Times change, people come and go, so at some point the powers-that-be at the FAA decided that maybe spin training was not such a bad idea after all. So what they did was left the existing regs in place (parachutes) but "reinterpreted" them to allow any CFI to give spin training to anyone without a 'chute.
Actually, the base interpretation of the reg - that you don't need a chute for training in a maneuver that is required for any of the certificates or ratings in Part 61 - never changed. What kept changing is whether spins were required for any of them.
The only thing that ever confused people was the "any certificate or rating" language, with some folks incorrectly thinking that you had to be "going for" the certificate or rating for it to count.