Are you gliding when you touch down?

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"mindenpilot" wrote:
I posted because everyone else was talking about
cutting power on downwind. How common is this?
Doesn't seem too many people were taught this way.

Isn't *everyone* taught HOW to make a power-off approach (cutting power
abeam the numbers) before soloing, just in case? I work at a flight
school and have never known anyone to teach routinely making *all*
approaches power-off, though.

I was taught simulated engine failure approaches, and practice them
periodically in my plane.
The OP asked if you cut power immediately before touchdown.
A surprising number of posters responded saying they cut the power on
downwind.
I was assuming this is their normal pattern procedure.
Did I misread, or are people flying patterns much differently than I am?
That is why I asked, How common is this?

Adam