In article , C J Campbell wrote:
If that isn't one of the worst statements ever posted to this newsgroup I
don't know what is.

Yeah, well, we replace half a dozen tiedown rings a year, thanks to the
idiotic advice of people like you. I ought to send you the bill.

Then they must be being taught to suddenly pull the yoke to the stops
then.

The C172N I learned to fly in was flown enough to reach engine TBO every
2 years. For the 7 years I was in that club, the tiedown ring was never
replaced. The plane was tied down outside and therefore lots of people
looked at the ring. Landings were taught to be yoke-all-the-way back by
all the instructors I flew with.

I've perhaps got 500 landings in C172N models, and I've never dragged
the tiedown ring on the ground.

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