Thanks guys, some good points here, and i'd never seen that acronym before very useful.
I'm interested in what FyingStone says about forces, do you explain that they will feel more acceleration, g in turns? i try and keep any tight turns to a minimum.
I learnt to talk to the pax during the flight esp in the landing phase as chopping back to near idle when your starting to deploy flap makes the engine go real quiet! it freaked my wife out so i explian this now, she thought it had quit!
most pax get freaked out by the size of the aircraft, i normally fly a tommie but i upgraded to a battered Archer for one flight, one passenger exclaimed 'its sooooo small' I had to explain for me it was big a plane :-)
anybody have a standard patter for engine failures? anybody ever mention EFATO? we were taught to expalin this but it seems a little dramatic?
Thanks.