In rec.aviation.student B A R R Y wrote:
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:00:44 -0600, Michael Ash
wrote:

Isn't there somewhat vague a section on emergency procedures which would
allow the examiner to say, "your flaps have failed, now go land"?

My examiner called the no flap landing an emergency procedure.

He announced the flap failure while asking for the ground control
frequency on 2 mile final to New Haven.

I told him I was too busy to pull out the AF/D, and would look up the
correct frequency after landing. This was the correct answer.

Cool, good to know I'm not totally off base. Those examiners are tricky
devils. Thanks for the story.

The rough equivalent in gliders is a no-spoiler landing, except that in
any decently-performing glider, trying to land without spoilers is like
trying to sink a body in the East River without concrete shoes: it just
won't go down. My examiner had me fly a pattern using slip instead of
spoilers until a point on short final where there was just no other way to
make a decent landing, at which point he let me open them and land.

I have done one landing with no spoilers (except when flaring, since I
didn't want to float forever) in an older glider, and even there it was
quite a challenge and took me two tries to get it right. I'm pretty sure
that if it happened for real I could survive the experience but it
wouldn't be pretty and might end up being expensive.

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Michael Ash
Rogue Amoeba Software