JEM60, I was taught that when I was very young, it was then, "hold off bank in a gliding turn and you will surely crash and burn." I believe it related to the fact that the Austers, Tigers and Chipmunks all had Gypsy engines turning back to front from modern engines. Also some of the Auster variants had heavy wooden cruise props, one of which I recall, mk 3? would smartly turn sharply if you closed the throttle without leading with a lot of rudder. You would have to try very hard to get into trouble but I suppose the possibility existed that you could end up with crossed controls at low level combined with a windshear. I was young and silly then and I am still here, so it couldn't have been too bad but all of those old sayings obviously existed because someone had died proving them.