I hear what a lot of you are saying and I'm sure it works very well for 'experienced' pilots. However I think it must be a bit confusing to early students. We teach them Effects of Controls, Straight and Level, Climbing and Descending, Turning, Stalling, Circuits. We teach 3 types of climb - in each elevator controls speed and power controls rate of climb. We teach them 3 types of descent and again - elevator controls speed and power controls rate of descent. Then we put them in the circuit and say "this is no longer true, we now do it different"???? When you teach circuits emergencies, how do you teach that? Point at what? Perhaps I have been trained the 'old' way but I think the first thing we need to teach the early student is to get the attitude correct (=correct speed) so that they can see the 'picture' and they can see whether they are high or low, then they can fix that. I agree with the statement "we fly the ILS that way". By the time a pilot flies an ILS they should have quite a bit of experience and the 'picture' is presented on the instrument, not outside. I think the point and power methodology got developed when the military flew turbine engines that were very slow to respond and you did not get the power when and as needed. Piston engines do not have that problem. A 400 ton juggernaut does not respond so fast either. If a 'mature' type person wants to learn in a Superpup purely for fun I find the 'old' method works better.