Not all that much to fear in a PA28-140, but not all airplanes are quite so forgiving.
He said his brother was a DC-9 captain and said you wanted to avoid stalling that one.
IIRC, it was something about the T-tail and its not having much "extra" power being a bad combination, that it couldn't power its way out of a deep stall and down it would go in a tail slide/tail spin. Not a thing you could do.
I don't know if that's true or not or just my instructor's way to re-tune my teenage invincibility, but I'm pretty sure that when a wing stalls it doesn't go up.
Unless some force changes the math, gravity wins and it comes down.
I'm told that it has something to do with verifiable and repeatable science, but that's probably just a theory.
Not all that much to fear in a PA28-140, but not all airplanes are quite so forgiving.
I took my first pre-solo 20 hours or so before I could apply for my SEL license, mostly in Cubs and an Aeronca [*Airknocker*] 7AC Champ, all taildraggers. My instructor was a high school teacher from North of us in the town where I was born. *this guy*
Stalls? Spins? Dicing 20-feet above the ground over a highway under construction for 20 miles? No big deal.