Engine failure on final

"Happy Dog" wrote in message
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Unless you do every landing power off with room to spare, yes.

The flip-side of doing every landing power-off, particularly when training
in the pattern, is that you *may* be putting enough extra stress on the
engine to make it *more* likely that the engine will fail in a difficult
position. Hence you may be increasing the overall risk by that pattern of
behaviour.

With typical trainers, it seems unlikely that it would have much long-term
effect. But with larger engines that require more delicate handling, I'd be
very reluctant to fly power-off landings on a regular basis. The effect may
be small but so is, as Michael said, the chance of a catastrophic engine
failure during the period when your glideslope makes a difference.

I'm surprised that the only two accidents that have been cited involve IFR
flights on an approach. They may not have had a choice of glideslope.

Julian Scarfe