Forced landings w/o power training
Gliding students have no qualms from the beginning about engine-less approaches and landings, so is it the case that some power instructors are in some way passing on their own discomfort with the idea of gliding, glide approaches and off tarmac landings?
Equally, the idea is prevalent that aerodromes with lots of tarmac are the only safe places to alight and pretty much everything else underneath you between these safe havens is no man's land.
Is it me or is there a culture developing that dramatises such things so that the mindset produced is one of apprehension and not one of quiet confidence in the outcome of any FLWOP?