On Monday, May 2, 2016 at 3:54:46 AM UTC-4, krasw wrote:

This is the EXACT recipe how to destroy DuoDiscus while landing out. It is so exactly opposite to what you should do that it is almost scary. Probably works on 2-33 or whatever only-slightly-glider-shaped-object you teach on, though.

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Interesting. I've not flown the Duo very much, and never when I really needed a steep approach, so I can't contribute to any discussion of the peculiarities of that ship. On the other hand, I teach only in G-103s and K-21s, having given up teaching in Schweizer iron entirely about ten years ago. (For sure, a forward slip in a 2-33 is seriously effective at losing altitude, so no argument there!) And, yes, I wss surprised to learn some years back from a colleague who'd been flying in Europe about their practices of full spoiler/increased speed approaches - my first reaction was that it would get really busy in the cockpit at the roundout and touchdown to transition to a slow speed touchdown, but when I tried it, it turned out to be surprisingly easy and really effective.