Originally Posted by
foxmoth
The first part is just bad teaching unless you were actually over using them. As far as insisting the nose is down goes I have no problem with that in principle, he maybe wants to see how you control the nosewheel onto the ground. I do a thing similar in the early part of tailwheel conversions - I want to see them control the direction down to a low speed, but I will brief not to "go" until I call it, and if I am not happy with the distance left, we stop and taxi back to the hold.
"Control the nosewheel onto the ground". If the a/c has enough airspeed that the elevator is capable of keeping the nose up then it is too fast to require nosewheel control, (I think?) eventually gravity will take over etc. (headwind considered of course). I am talking about some pushing to get it down.
There were other aspects of training that were, in my miserable opinion, lacking.
But as a student pilot one is expected to worship the instructor!