Originally Posted by
blind pew
...fortunately by that time I had learnt that one flies the attitude for speed and control the ROD with power rather than the point using the flight director and let the auto throttle sort the speed out. I got back into gliding in the 90s and reverted back to BEA days and fixated on the aiming point and controlling the speed with the brakes..a what I unfairly called “old fart” caught me out and I realised how bad habits can resurface in spite of doing hundreds of approaches on raw data.
That old chestnut! It could be argued that the approach path for landing is a 'defined vertical path' (such as 3 degree slope for ILS) in the same way that level flight is a defined vertical path. In other words path is controlled by pitch and speed by thrust. Of course it's the
combination of pitch attitude and thrust that determines the vertical path and speed. Not applicable to gliders of course.
With respect!