"Roy Smith" wrote in message
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From a purely instructor-centric point of view, I would prefer that
controllers treat VFR practice approaches *exactly* like IFR ones. It's
a training exercise; the more things you do differently from real life,
the less effective the training is.

I can understand that from the trainees point of view, but alas it isn't
that way.

In any case, you end up eating up brain cycles sorting out how high you
should be, when the issue would never come up on an IFR flight.

Yep.