To those who think glide approaches should be the norm..have you really considered the matter in the 21 st century? Bit like accepting GPS?!
For example have you considered the difficulty fitting it in with other traffic? Have you ever been trying to teach it and been frustrated at the time spent trying to find a suitable gap in traffic? That is the reason for telling Air Traffic you require one!
For those of you who do it every time....do you really subject your novice passenger/grandmother to a sudden and total reduction in engine power on base leg and then what, to them, appears to be a suicidal dive to the Airfield? Do you?
For those who operate from private strips (frequently small and often demanding)...do you really do it when a short field "performance" type approach is really what is required?
For those who fly heavy complex singles..do you ever do it in one of these types? Do you?
For those who fly twins...ever do one in a twin?!
For those operating from Regional airports...how do you manage them all the time? Same applies to those operating from busy GA fields.
And what does this bog standard glide approach "training" achieve when the performance may be nothing like a genuine engine failure which can vary from a catasphophic failure to a bit of carb ice, all of which may require differing actions!
So, who is doing them as a matter of course and what are they really achieving?
UV
Last edited by UV; 12th December 2007 at 20:52.