On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:28:09 -0700 (PDT), "
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On Apr 8, 12:27*pm, Ralph Jones wrote:
In certain situations -- a Cessna with full flaps, for
instance -- there is a great deal of opportunity to screw it up. And
when you do screw it up, you're likely to be doing so in close
proximity to another airplane that may or may not know you're there...
rj


Ralph I fly a 1966 150, that year still had 40 degree flaps. I'm
curious what you find more challenging about the Cessna with full
flaps? Perhaps I mis spoke as Hillary would say....it's not that I
don't think the maneuver should be taught, it's that I don't think
enough emphasis is placed on nailing your landing the first time
around.

Agreed, the later Cessnas will protect you from some degree of folly
with less flap extension, but you still have to arrest your descent in
an airplane with very little thrust margin. You have to do it quickly,
with a rapid power increase, rapid onset of P-factor, and you may have
to maneuver horizontally at the same time. If you don't know exactly
what the conflict is, you may be descending on top of somebody who
made a straight-in out of sunlit haze...I've seen a few very dicey
situations just like that.

It's not that the go-around is especially hard: just that it's as
important to master as any other maneuver your airplane can do. You
really should be able to land without stalling as you turn final, too,
but in my CFI'ing days I wouldn't have let you get off without
learning to recover from that.

rj