Speaking of a 150/172.Cat Driver wrote:Speaking of a 150. My point is : "I wont stop teaching my students from landing with full flaps because of they might forget the flaps on take off".
What percentage of their landings do you teach them to use full flaps under normal conditions?
What lesson would you say is not taught fully and is least understood by students, and by default not understood by new low time instructors?
I will always recommend a full flap landing, unless there is a strong crosswind, because yes you land slower.
I am not saying it is unsafe to land 0, 10,20,40 ...
Many do extend the full flaps once they are sure to make the runway or once authorized to land, that is fine with me. If you think you might have to overshoot, why not wait a little longer before extending flaps.
Overshot should be considered as an emergency procedure itself as well as the sideslip to accelerate the descent.
Students should be comfortable with overshoots with full flaps and should be taught to land in any configuration.
Anyways my 2 cents.