Cub Driver wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:56:22 -0800, Ron Garret

wrote:

If you fly final with some amount of power (which I gather most
people
do -- I always have) that seems to guarantee that if you lose your
engine on final you will land short, and there's pretty much nothing
you
can do about it. Is that true?

Yes, that's true, and it's why the Old Timers taught power-off
landings, and it's why I fly them routinely.

(To tell the truth, I also like the feeling of whooshing down without
that engine blatting away. Perhaps I was a glider pilot in another
life.)

You've got it in one Dan !
Every landing in a glider/sailplane is a forced landing and circuit
planning becomes nearly automatic.
However with all the posters talk of glideslopes and rates of descent
and other esoteric subjects remember there are two laws a pilot has to
follow.
1) Fly the aeroplane
2) For anything else refer to 1
:-)