This sounds like it's becoming a bit like the debates about
:
- Deploying flaps in a turn
- Over square for CS props
- Side slipping under XXX' agl
- Running lean of peak
- Flying outside the demonstrated X-wind component
- ....
All things that should be avoided when experience is limited - but all things that are useful tools when used correctly.
When I had advanced to Bronze 'C' level my instructor would sometimes place me in a "bad" circuit position (often too close in) - the only requirement was I had to judge deployment of airbrake so that I would go from 0 to 2/3 and was then only allowed to make very minor adjustments. Sometimes this did mean deploying airbrakes half way through the final turn.
To allow people to asses my comments I have around 220 hours / Silver 'C' in gliders (mostly in an Open Cirrus) - so relatively inexperienced.
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