Originally Posted by
172_driver
How about this one - slow below best glide speed to steepen the approach angle!?
Never taught it to my students. But tried it a few times on my own and worked like magic.
Discuss.
I wouldn't recommend this technique as a standard procedure. One need only ask themself how many times have they been doing a practice engine out scenario where they discovered that they were no longer at their best glide speed which they had been targeting. All this because they were busy doing a cause check or busy doing a shutdown procedure or busy assessing how their positioning with their chosen landing area was working out, etc. There are plety of distractions during this procedure and speed is inevitable going to end up off target sometimes. Best to have a fair bit of margin above the stall to account for this.