Morris,
That was exactly my point. Greg seems to think it's doesn't qualify as
training unless it is demonstrated. And by his definition, your approach
would not qualify either, since you never actually demonstrate a porpoise.

My point was that he's talking about semantics. Training is education,
which includes actual demonstrations, but also includes ingraining
information into the student on how to deal with certain situations that
are never demonstrated.

(journeyman) wrote in
u.com:

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While I haven't done 'porpoising training' per se, my tailwheel
training involved recovering from a bounce by avoiding porpoising. The
rule of thumb was, on the first bounce you could try to recover by
going to 3-point attitude. On the second bounce, you go around.

Be that as it may, as a some-day-to-be instructor, I'm not sure I'd
feel comfortable exposing a pre-solo student in a tricycle gear
airplane to a porpoising situation, but I'd make sure the student
at least understood the concept. In fact, I'd probably start the
training with go-arounds as the first choice.

Morris