I had the late Mike Goulian (senior, that is) for my PPL checkride at
BED. Just before reaching abeam the numbers, he took out a sectional,
covered the entire panel, pulled the throttle, and said, "You just lost
everything. I've got the radios. Land the plane." Not a big deal as
the runway is something like 8000', but was sure an interesting experience.

A side note: Before entering the pattern, he told me that he wanted to
see a full-flap landing. On the turn to final, he "reminded" me that he
had requested a full-flap approach. (No flaps had been deployed.) I
reminded him that the 172 we were flying in had electric flaps, and if I
had, indeed, just lost everything, just how was I supposed to drop them?
A quick smile came across his face, and he responded with, "OK. You
still have a little battery left."

Bob Moore wrote:
(Kees Mies) wrote

Since yesterday I'm a bit more confident about my piloting.
Now I know I can land my plane without instruments and I feel a lot
more safer knowing this.


Each of my students received one full lesson in and out of the
traffic pattern with the entire instrument panel covered with a
piece of paper for the complete lesson. Of course, they had been
taught from the begining to rely on the tachometer and visual
attitude and not the airspeed indicator when landing.

Bob Moore


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