On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:42:01 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:

In article ,
"Kyle Boatright" wrote:

One of the local flight schools from a
towered field teaches B-52 style approaches in their C-172's. That makes
sense for someone who is just attempting his/her first landings, but once
the student has the landing thing figured out, the instructor(s) really,
really need to retrain their students to fly a tighter pattern.

It's much easier to teach somebody the right way the first time.

Isn't this the "stabilized approach" rubric carried to an extreme?

Don