Full flap at 500ft in a C152?
The CFI at my club insists on having an SOP whereby every student must lower full flap as they are turning final, typically 500ft.
I was taught (and was taught to teach!) to lower full (30 degrees) flap with 200ft to go, which has always worked fine for me and I can't say it upsets the a/cs attitude at all really - it helps to reduce from the speed from 65 to the 60kts over threshold.
I cringe inwardly whenever I see a student crawl towards the threshold all the way down finals because he has the drag flap down!
Its not a major issue so I let it slide, anyone else got any opinions on this?