On Apr 7, 3:24 pm, "
wrote:
I wonder out loud if teaching power pilots they have that option
creates more problems than if they were taught to land the plane the
first time around like "We" are.

You don't want to force a landing when you're not comfortable with
it. As a power pilot (who is looking into but doesn't yet have a
glider rating), most of my go arounds were early in my student pilot
phase. Sometimes after turning final I'd realize that I was just too
high (too low can almost always be patched up - just give it a lil
more power to maintain altitude coming in), and I wasn't yet
comfortable with doing a slip to fix it.

So, when you're 1/3 of the way down the runway and still 300 feet up,
it's just safer to just go around and try the setup again. For me (and
I'd guess most people), they get far less frequent over time.

Particularly troublesome for me as a student pilot was that different
power levels are required for simulated normal, short, and soft field
landings. Given the different power levels they all required that I
turn base at different distances past the numbers. It can take some
time to get used to that.

Mike