it should take less than five seconds if done correctly.
- and therein lies the rub, cock ups happen and some free air beneath can be a real nice to have.
As far as the hoary old myth no.10, you're preaching to the converted, especially after that experience, but as with many other pilots I tend to go along with most of whatever the be-striped one in the RHS insists is gospel at the given time. Indeed I've been roundly castigated on this same forum for daring to suggest that an instructor may have been out of line in the cockpit.
