On Tuesday, June 2, 2015 at 12:00:12 PM UTC-4, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:47:50 -0600, Dan Marotta wrote:

Never do I fly to a landmark and then make a turn to base, fly to
another landmark and turn to final. That's just asking for trouble.

Surely that can only work for a pilot who never has and never will land
anywhere but his home field.

UK training specifically warns against that trick.

My 2p.


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At our field, we teach "angles, what does it look like?", then again, most of our CFIG's are cross country/competition pilots.
Landmarks "can" work at a constant fixed location, but is no help in "Farmer Browns back 40". Heck, even an altimeter is rather useless (in an off airport landing) since you don't know field elevation.