Adding an airplane rating to private pilot glider

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On Apr 7, 6:33 am, "Vaughn Simon"
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Keep in your mind that landings in the pattern suddenly
become optional, a go-around is a whole new possibility to fit into your
decision making process.
Your instructor will not be amused by your first attempts at stall
recovery.
He will insist that you use power, and you will wonder why.
Vaughn


Vaughn you raised 2 good points.
As for the go around, and as a glider pilot that added power..... And
with the disclaimer that I am just a normal pilot, no amazing skill
set that the next glider pilot doesn't have....

I have to say that I don't get this whole Go Around thing. Other than
in my initial lessons with the power instructor I have never been in a
pattern that I had to do a go around for. If you enter the pattern at
the correct height and speed, you should have no reason to do a go
around.

I wonder out loud if teaching power pilots they have that option
creates more problems than if they were taught to land the plane the
first time around like "We" are.

Doug

I had quite a bit of glider time when I added my first 'power' rating -
which was a Commercial SEL since, given the credit I got for my logged
glider time, the Commercial didn't take all that much more time than a
Private. Under then current rules, 100 hours of my glider time counted
against the 200 hours a Commercail SEL required.

During training, a go-around never came up since the instructor's technique
was to wait until a student screwed up an approach. I didn't screw up so
the lesson was never taught.

Then one day as I was putting down a very long, slow approach waiting for
the corporate jet on the runway to finish his checklist, I started thinking
about go-arounds. It suddenly occured to me that if an airplane were to
taxi onto the runway at the last second, I might revert to glider technique
and land the airplane on the grass between the runway and taxiway. Hmmm....
That might be very hard to explain.

I called the tower and asked for a low pass over the numbers and a go-around
to get some practice with the throttle thingy.

Bill Daniels