Billy the Kid
I think you may have confused my comments for someone elses.
If you have a re read of my post you will see that I do NOT advocate the use of Glide Approaches for approaches. I advocate that powered approaches should be taught and used right from the beginning and once that has been achieved, the solo hours completed, the glide approach can be taught as a forerunner to the Practice Forced Landing Air Ex.
Some arguement has been used that the student can learn how to land of a powered approach when he gets into something bigger but shouldn't a responsible instructor teach this from the beginning because the powered approached is the norm rather than the exception. Why should the student has to pay for further lessons at subsequent type checks.
I would also be interested to know as to how the short field technique is achieved of a glide approach.
I know this has digressed from the original thread but to put an opinion in on that, I thank my stars I was never saddled with an instructor who taught that technique.
Regards