We teach that way on the final turn in the visual circuit, Ken. But once you
are pointing at the runway, with flaps set for landing, the stick is for
attitude (aiming at the threshold) and the throttle for IAS. Thence it's
"picture and speed" all the way to the flare.
Chris T's technique won't work for most elementary flying: you need an
autopilot. Attitude sets speed only when you have a fixed throttle, as in
climbing and descending. The final turn is a fixed throttle descent, but with
ability to adjust the power to adjust the RoD while maintaining the speed with
a change in attitude, as appropriate.
Of course, I never (consciously) used any of these techniques before I trained
as an instructor :-)
Chris
On 18 Sep 2011, at 21:51, Ken Norton wrote:
> Interesting discussion regarding speed control. I was taught to trim to
> speed and use throttle to adjust glideslope. Basically, in this method you
> are using the stick for wing levelling. Essentially impossible to stall the
> aircraft this way. Of course the guy who taught me this was a missionary
> pilot who's main skillset was flying into impossibly short fields in
> jungles.
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