-=>> Quoting Ray Marsh to CHRISTOPHER TARANA <=-
 RM>> Greetings...
 RM>> Which brings me to another interesting point:  what is being taught in
 RM>> light aeroplanes these days - glide approaches or powered
 RM>> approaches?
 >         Right now power on approaches are vogue, that's why we
 > are losing so
 > many light planes in final approach engine failures.  Dirty a
 > plane up with flaps and high AOA, and use power to hold the
 > aircraft out of the stall and in the localizer.  Problem is
 > when that power is no longer there, you sir, are flying a brick
 > with a degree in Gravity.  I tried a power-on approach
 > yesterday and crapped the engine at 2.3 DME on my simulator and
 > came real close to buying the farm. I reality, I probably took
 > out the REIL lights and bellied on the runway with the gear
 > stripped off the aircraft.  :-)
 >         Christopher
Not me, kiddo.  I always figured if I had to touch that throttle on final, 
I'd screwed up.
The _only_ time I ever rushed things with those stupid power-on approaches 
was when the tower was really giving me a hard time at one of the commercial 
airports, or when that DC-8 way back there started looking so not so way back 
there.  The air intakes of turbines bigger than my fuselage (hell, almost 
bigger than my wingspan) always did make me nervous :-)
This was all per my instructors, of course .. and the chief pilot .. which 
was fine with me, just _felt_ like "old time flying" :-)  Donno what the FAA 
would've thought; never quite got to my FAA checkride, alas.  But I was gonna 
do power-off approaches there too until somebody told me to do something 
different.
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