On 21 Jan 2005 11:46:20 -0800, "Michael"
wrote:

Many instructors teach power-off patterns (idle abeam the numbers). I
teach it too, but not as a normal procedure. It's simply not practical
most of the time (due to traffic).

This of course is the whole point. Power-off landings are the sensible
thing to do, but traffic at some airports makes them unwise. I don't
know if it's "most of the time"; certainly it's very seldom that I
encounter heavy traffic.

I almost always fly power-off from the time I am abreast my landing
spot, and that's fine at the airports I inhabit. I am almost never in
the pattern with another aircraft--and if there is, it's usually
another Cub. If there is a plane on the runway when I am in the
pattern, I reckon it a busy day; if two, a very busy day.



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