Pulse 1. I understand what you are saying and it seems to me that you among others have been experiencing instructors who have become used to flying big stuff rather than little stuff. Unfourtunatly the days of the old style private flying club instructional system have almost gone,and though there was always the odd hour builder and C.P.L. teaching on his day off this seems the norm now.This new breed of instructor is perhaps not always so familiar with grass roots flying. I too like a bit of height on final just incase it goes quiet up front, and it has done a couple of times,or more commonly for that wind gradient/shear which is mostly what this thread is about I think bye safe flying.