After having read most of the posts here, for which I concur on most of the advice given. For me, I am always looking for suitable landing areas as flying at below 500 for most of my career demands it.
However, one interesting aspect I have come to notice in training our new PPL pilots today (in OZ anyway) is that they are taught to land with power mostly on, and to do longer approaches. I realise that this somewhat alleviates the problem of an engine misfiring due to carby conditions or such like, but if the engine does konk then ...... well....... sorry about the bent a/c.
What happened to doing glide approaches. Its safe, teaches a hell of a lot re a/c performance in lots of different circumstances, and it may save your life and those of others one day (esp if you happen to want to put down in a school playground)
Sure when you get into larger a/c, I can understand the need of keeping a brick aloft with brute power, but for most single piston engined............
My cents worth
