Tory Boy,
I don't agree with what you are saying. I don't think FFF's post sounded arrogant.
I am an instructor myself and there are very few occasions where a g/a would not be possible and on a licensened airfield it is even rarer at any point excpt for maybe the end of the roll out.
The post Julian has put in, is exactly the point I would like all low houred, inexperienced students to put into practise. As I said before, if you are ready for it, then it isn't so much of an issue when you actually need to do it.
I would like to re-iterate the point about carb heat. On some a/c you have a very large accelerator pump in the carb, if the throttle is opened quickly a large amount of fuel will be dumped into the engine. If the carb heat is hot, then you are more likely to have a rich-cut due to lower air fuel ratio caused by the hot(er) air. Putting it away on finals is one way of curing this, but I would recommend that you check it just to make sure. Carb heat does make an enormous difference in power output (upto 10-20%) and in the little bug smashers you usually need as much as possible!!
I don't like the fact that an instructor would gloss over a safety point because of a fragile ego. I'm not saying that it happened here however. There may well have been valid reasons. I'm just curious to know what they are. Pure noseyness I'm afraid.
Last edited by Say again s l o w l y; 23rd October 2003 at 21:53.