On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 04:48:32 -0900, "Ron Webb"
wrote:

Awww for crying out loud! The guy asks a simple question, and you either
confuse him with excess detail, or act like it's a stupid question, just
because YOU know the answer! Not very friendly!

Just to answer the question directly:

Your instructor is correct. Control altitude with throttle, and airspeed
with pitch. It sounds backwards, but that's what they teach. If you were to
take a Private Pilot ground school class tomorrow, they would have said that
in so many words before the end of the first week.

At a pilot proficency course the instructor showd me that either way
can work just as well. However even though it seems backwards the
pitch for airspeed, power for altitude apparently makes teaching
landings easier to start.



Of course, nothing is ever that easy in the real world, but you have to
start somewhere.
Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com