Chicken6 and Charlie Foxtrot India,
Jeeeez, now I don't know what to do!
To be honest, I learned both ways and didn't think it was that big a deal. It seemed to me you were unlikely to have engine failure on short final, and also unlikely to need all the power you could possibly get for a go around. Then one day at Welshpool - 800 metre very narrow runway with trees at far end - I was waiting to take off when a Cessna 152 landed long, bounced, and tried to go around. He was obviously having problems getting full power and was heading straight for the trees. I couldn't look and my co-pilot was halfway out the door to get help, when we realised he'd made it, literally by inches. I don't know if his problem was having carb heat on, but I always thought it could have been. It was after that I decided it was easier to remember carb heat back on final, than to do it when you're narrowly averting disaster in the event of a last minute go around.
OK, I think I've now decided. Carb heat in at about 200 feet or lower, but before landing. And I won't listen to anyone who tells me otherwise! On second thoughts I think I'll stick to helicopters
But seriously, this is a useful discussion guys. TELL your students these sort of things. Don't just demand they do it because you say so.
Whirly
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To fly is human, to hover, divine.