Speed control - pitch or power?
John Farley's excellent articles in 'Flyer' have opened up this for discussion this month. On the approach, do you use elevator or power to control speed?
As John points out, in a glider it had better be pitch. Years ago when I did my PPL on C150s I was taught to use pitch for speed, power for rate of descent. When I checked out in a Yak 52 a few years ago the technique was to use power for speed and pitch for flightpath control (point it at the numbers and fly a curved approach using power to control the speed). So maybe for low powered machines think 'pitch', for high powered think 'power'? Check out the article to see how John demonstarted to an 'always use pitch' instructor that it's not as simple as that.
Over the years I've worked out my own theories on this. What do you guys think???
SSD