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Old 3rd Dec 2007, 13:15
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SNS3Guppy
 
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If you're not teaching the student both flaps up, and flaps down landings, then you're doing the student a grave disservice. The student should be fully comfortable landing with any flap setting, and a variety of power settings. Initially one airspeed and one flap setting may help the student get the basics of landing the airplane...but by the time a student becomes a private pilot, the student should be entirely comfortable landing the airplane no matter what the flap setting. Flaps fail, and the student needs to be able to handle that without a second thought.
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