You did the correct action as a student pilot. No doubts about it.
The problem is are insulting your former instructors, stating they are not professional for grounding the fleet when for weeks you had power losses on a daily basis.
You are really insulting your instructor that saved both your lives that day, condemning *his action as inadequate.
He was able to identify the engine still was alive but not responding 100%. Therefore, applied full power, leveled off, and performed a low and short circuit to land on the active runway.*
And.... Yes, that day, the aircraft was not able to reach 2000 ft, because it was barely able to maintain the altitude.
To perform a forced landing away from the runway at Lombok airport, considering the bad conditions of the terrain, and that liberty xl2 has the fuel tanks just below the pilots seat, instead of the wings like usually almost all single engine training aircrafts, would probably end up in a tragedy.*
Anyway, the worst, is not the fact you are questioning the professionalism of your instructors grounding the fleet, or the action that your instructor took that day.*
The worst is LIFT management put pressure one more time after these events to keep flying as usual, threatening them and screaming at them.*
And this is really bad, considering that wasn't an isolated case. We have had many of them and becoming more frequent and dangerous.*
In the last 6 months the flight crew was keeping in a proactive behavior for their own personal benefit and for the benefit of the school and the students. But, enough is enough. Specially when the management is not taking any actions except to pressure them to fly.
And by the way, you should make a couple of calls to some schools in US, Canada, Europe or Australia, and ask them what the policies and procedures are in case of a fuel contamination.
And while you are at it, ask them what their opinion is with regards to management allowing fresh CPL holders to perform test flights after 6 months of recorded power losses and engine failures.*
Regards,
One of the fired flyboys.