Dropping flaps while in a turn

[RyanB]

I have been taught "wait to extend flaps until you are level" so for example, if im in the pattern and i put 10 degrees down on downwind and im in the turn to base i should wait until i roll out of the turn to put the next notch of flaps in. Does this really effect aerodynamics? Do you have to wait to be level to put flaps in? This is flying a 152/172

 

[Jim Logajan]

Let me tell a little story…

So would Bob or you be guilty of manslaughter for not getting the airplane grounded as un-airworthy prior to Carol's flight?

 

[Jim Logajan]

Probably not, given "...on the left flap actuating rod, right adjacent to the jam nut, there’s a hairline fracture that would need a magnifying glass to see."

Unless you hold that you use a magnifying glass on every preflight, or that every failure can be spotted ahead of time.

You missed the point. Your story, if taken as non-fiction, involves one airplane that had a flap failure on Bob's flight, yet was flown later by Carol that same day. Bob or the operator allowed an obviously un-airworthy to continue to be flown.

Sorry, just making trouble with your instructing tale. Unless you are claiming this sequence of events really happened....

A more serious criticism of your tale is that you posit a failure a rare failure on a side of the plane and a time in the pattern that maximizes your point. Surely one can posit tales of inopportune jammed rudder or yoke or stick that attempt to teach some other flying rule of thumb that yields a "um, yeah, right" response?

 

[Jim Logajan]

How many fatal accidents attributed to asymmetric flap deployment?