but would add S&L at different power settings/speeds/configurations
I asked a recent FIC candidate to select two stages of flap down and reduce to approach speed downwind while flying straight and level and he said as he had never done it before he was reluctant to do it without me talking him through it!
All of our basic PPL students are capable of doing this along with ovals or squares at 500 feet, 800 feet or 1000 feet with power reductions for the approach from anywhere past abeam the numbers. Too many schools still turn out pilots who can only fly a bomber square circuit by numbers which in my opinion doesnt encourage situation awareness and good judgement