Downwind to final turns

On Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 7:36:07 AM UTC-7, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:

On the open bird I put in flaps on downwind and leave them alone, schempp,
on the 18 AS, with larger flap deflection I only put in landing flap on final when
landing is assured,Thoughts comments, different way of doing things?

And why is a landing not assured while on downwind?

I fly a ASH-26E and try to fly a steep pattern, so will often apply full flap on downwind or base, and rarely on final if for some reason the pattern was flown lower than normal.

A classic airplane pattern is to chop the throttle abeam the numbers and the steep approach makes it very easy to judge a precision touchdown.

5Z