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flaps again
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* *It is amazing how attitudes change over time and how certain flying procedures become part of our culture. * *If I recall correctly, it was some time back in the 70's when some FAA bureaucrat made a PTS change decreeing that a normal landing was to be with full flaps. *Before that, flap use was taught as something that was much more at the pilot's option. *The change caused quite a furor at the time. *Some instructors thought that full flap landings were much too advanced for mere student pilots! Vaughn My observation on this is that there are instructors that learned to fly at large flight schools catering to teaching airline pilots. The thing to remember is that these flight training schools are not teaching these pilots to fly single pilot single engine airplanes. Instead they use a Cessna 172 as a 737 simulator and teach their students to fly a C-172 like it was a 737. The result is that these pilots do learn to make full flap landings every time and no flap landings are an emergercy procedure as they would be in a Boeing 737. This is an excellent and efficient method to train airline pilots. (As a side thought I wonder if this may have been some of the motivation behind Cessna removing the 40 degree flap setting, Since about the time they did that some of thier biggest customers were these flight schools) The problem comes when these pilots decide they want to teach General Avation pilots to fly single engine airplanes. They will often tend to teach they way they were taught. These instructors may start teaching their students to fly 172's like it was a 737 and we see things transfered from the 737 to the c-172 that really don't apply to the C-172. For the pilot training to fly small single engine airplanes they really should learn to use the flap as needed instead as just a checklist item. Brian CFIIG/ASEL |
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