Quote, "With the greatest respect to some: On Approach,
1) light aircraft use pitch for speed
2) Heavy Jets use thrust for speed
Too many light aircraft pilots here who obviously have no experience in heavy aircraft operations "
By George,
I beg to differ. Since you are on the thrust curve backside, adding thrust will not necessarily regain target airspeed, but lowering attitude will. No different from light aircraft.
The differentiation of light from heavy aircraft flying technique is an error in understanding aircraft flight mechanics and resulting handling qualities, even if the chief flight instructor taught this way. What matters are design parameters like wing loading, thrust over weight, lift over drag, and the CL vs Alpha and thrust vs airpseed curves. The B747 at any landing weight isn't substantially different in approach handling qualities from a Cessna 206, even though the Boeing wing is swept, and has more tires and Lbs. Their greatest handling qualities differences are in the flight control system mechanical characteristics, irrelevant to the above quoted issue.
The writer served as chief experimental test pilot since the 70's.