On Tuesday, June 2, 2015 at 1:24:53 PM UTC-4, kirk.stant wrote:

Bottom line, I think it helps to get everything set on downwind (gear, flaps, initial spoiler setting, airspeed) then concentrate on flying a safe pattern. To me, messing with flaps and spoilers while making base and final turns and changing aircraft configuration throughout the pattern is asking for trouble (see all the ASW-20s that crashed early on with the gear cycling on final, ex-Libelle pilots thinking they were pulling the spoilers!)

What helps even more is starting with the POH before developing your own type specific procedures :-).

For instance: Landing flaps in the 20 are reserved for final approach, per the POH, for a whole bunch of very good reasons.

-Evan Ludeman / T8