Oh, I almost forgot:
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?
I beg to question what kind of Pilot you are if you imagine this would ever happen.
I always - and I mean ALWAYS - tell my pax what is going on with the aircraft at any phase of flight - especially when I'm about to reduce power. If they know what to expect, and see me looking completely relaxed, then I'm not "subjecting" them to anything.
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, what you're saying then is because it MAY not be like the real thing, we shouldn't practice them?
Best we stop teaching/practising stalling, spin recovery, precautionary landings, forced landing without power as well.
