Originally Posted by Cobalt
The combination of
- insisting to teach approach and landing at speeds 5-10kt higher than recommended by the POH for the conditions
- and then requiring additional short field / grass field training because no student can reasonably be expected to land a PA28 in less than 800m
annoys me.
I second that. Plus:
- using yet additional speed buffer for flapless landings (e.g. landing speed with flaps up is cruise speed minus 10 knots)
- using flaps for takeoff as SOP on 2+ km paved runways, even if POH/AFM says normal takeoff is with flaps up
- retracting flaps after above said takeoff example at not lower than 400ft, because this is the "lowest acceleration altitude" - even at density altitudes at 3k+ in a spamcan @ MTOM
- not teaching even the slightest use of GPS (if installed), since "it's forbidden to use it for VFR navigation" and all that jazz
- teaching that line-up is supposed to be done by following the nice yellow line to the runway centerline
- using "airline-style" checklists - then discovering that checklist for 737 has 2/3 less items than for a single-pilot day VMC flown spamcan
- insisting that students do W&B before each flight with weighing data from 10 years ago (and of course using the same data for entire fleet of same type)
- read and do checklists in the air
- teaching students not to use that little red knob/lever - its color clearly means it's made from devil himself
- flying "stabilised approaches" with gear down, full flaps and prop forward from 2 NM before FAF in a SEP
And the list could go on....