Pwr off lndg practice pre-solo students

[Jeanie]

Do you as a CFI teach power off landings to your pre-solo students?

Why.... Why not?

 

[Jim Logajan]

As a matter of personal preference, I actually like to make all my landings power off, as Whifferdill says. It obviously can't happen ALL the time, and does not apply to flying an instrument glideslope, but VMC operations? You bet.

I started in gliders. Power off landings happened all the time. :wink2:

The closest thing to a throttle in the SGS 2-33 I started training in was the dive brake. That and slips were pretty much it for descent control. Naturally you can't recover from an undershoot in a glider since a dive brake isn't really analogous to a throttle, so it isn't hard to see which way glider pilots err if they have to err at all. (Also known as err speed control. )