On Oct 28, 12:46*pm, Orval Fairbairn
wrote:
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*"Ken S. Tucker" wrote:

On Oct 27, 5:23 pm, brian whatcott wrote:
Ken S. Tucker wrote:
It's a good case to practice some 'dead stick' landings. AFAIK you
should be able to kill the bird anyway in the circuit and dead stick.
That's how I was trained on a cessna-152.
Ken

It used to be training SOP to pull the throttle to idle onto base
until the cold shock issue forced a gentler kinder approach
Brian W

Never heard of that, but I can understand it.
Ken

I was taught to pull the power on downwind, even with the desired
touchdown point.

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This was pretty standard procedure during the period when I learned to
fly. As an instructor I "altered" the way I approached this a bit by
stressing proper stepped down power reduction on letdowns prior to
entering downwind so that by the time the power was reduced on final,
the engine temps and pressures were under control.
There's always been a "discussion" about the advantages and
disadvantages of doing power off approaches as practice for forced
landings.
What I did was to treat forced landing practice as forced landing
practice and otherwise stressed proper engine management as suggested
by the engine manufacturer.
Dudley Henriques