As a bit of light relief to this e-mail tennis, I thought
I'd add an 'interesting' idea that did the rounds in
the UK a few years ago. Basically, the BGA instructors'
committee (or the national coach, can't remember exactly
now) suggested that if you were high on finals, pulling
full brake/spoiler and diving at the ground would burn
off more energy than other options. We had great fun
trying this out one weekend until our CFI decided his
aircraft were in mortal danger and stopped the experiment.

Happy days!

Paul

At 18:30 12 February 2004, Johnd wrote:
'Vaughn Simon' wrote in message news:...
'JohnD' wrote in message
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O.K. I'm really not trying to argue here.

Neither am I, this would best be done over a
friendly beer.

so perhaps we could get away
from the yawstring example and you could help me
understand why you
believe 'an early solo student (or anyone else....'
should not know
how to execute and be skilled at a 'slipping approach'.

You are 'putting words in my keyboard', I wrote
no such thing as what
you have above. I was addressing your yawstring example
speciifically, and
I wrote that (within my present knowledge and experience)
a missing or
broken yawstring is not a reason to make a slipping
pattern.



It would appear to me that other CFI's and FAA examiners
believe the
'slips to landing' phrase in 61.87(i) means they
should teach and
expect to see competancy in this maneuver. So why
is your approach so
different from theirs?

Where did I say it is?

'Round and round we go.'
As I read this I can see that you certainly didn't
say that exactly,
in fact you have really said nothing except dispute
my poor example.
Good job. Thanks for correcting me. Do you actually
have an opinion on
the subject?

Have a nice day.