How do you teach FLWOP? Do you have any useful tips?
How can we achieve a better standard with this exercise?
Bob if you look at most of the responses so far, you will see something of the problem. Most of what has been posted so far is what you can find in a textbook and that clearly doesnt work or you wouldnt be asking the question(and its a very valid question)!
Most modern textbooks have been written on tne foundations of WW2 practice with high key and low key thrown in and perhaps the constant aspect approach for those who understand it. Add a dose of folkore to that and hey presto we have the modern commentary flying instructor!
For instance our engine out pilot has done everything, all the drills known to mankind, all the folkore. It perfect, the speeds are text book, its the smoothest full flap landing ever. But during the landing roll our hero goes into a previously unseen hole which brings the aircraft to an abrubt stop and the elderly front seat pax hits his head on the door post and later dies from his injury. Is that a successful forced landing?
On the other hand pilot 2 does no checks, flys a **** pattern with **** speeds but because he knows all fields have hidden surprises and is expecting an impact he briefed his passengers to "brace brace" and ensured the upper torso restraint was
painfully tight. He also of course gave a pre flight pax briefing mentioning the brace position and the importance of upper torso restraint belt tightening.
There are two aspects to a FLWOP.
1 Flying the procedure
2 Managing the emergency
Words and phrases are important in instruction.
For instance:
Landing into wind is important
BPF has just dealt with that as I write but thats not a good instructor statement(if there is no wind we cant fly it then?!!). In an ideal world landing into wind is
best practice but unless you have pre booked ATC with and anemometer in your chosen field you probably wont have much idea of what tbe wind is locally. There are other occasions when upslope may be preferable.
A partial failure (eg loss of power, or rough running) is a bit neglected in the syllabus. Exercise 17 (Precautionary Landings) is very difficult to teach realistically and it is boring if done 5/600 ft higher than the real thing. Any ideas for that one?
Its very easy to teach.
Combine it with flight at minimum level. Fly to a pre arranged private local grass airfield or if thats not possible fly low level cross country to your base airfield and do it there