Comments on: Precautionary Landing or Really Good Luck? http://blog.aopa.org/leadingedge/?p=1430 A place to discuss safety-of-flight issues, procedures, techniques, and judgment. Thu, 23 May 2013 12:18:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Bruce Landsberg http://blog.aopa.org/leadingedge/?p=1430&cpage=1#comment-30434 Bruce Landsberg Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:19:00 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/asfblog/?p=1430#comment-30434 Stuart….

My CFI instructor did just such an exercise with me as I was becoming an instructor. It could be done in safety using a grass strip airport that you knew was in good shape and had not told the student about.

How about it CFIs?

]]> By: stuart http://blog.aopa.org/leadingedge/?p=1430&cpage=1#comment-30432 stuart Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:55:10 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/asfblog/?p=1430#comment-30432 I am a former ag pilot and current CFI still teaching after 50+ears of flying. I used to teach off-airport landings and didn’t send a student for a checkride until they actually performed one. I used known ag strips and good dirt roads that coiuld be landed on safely (with the proper technique). The student was not forewarned and his/her response was invaluable for determining whether or not the training had “sunk in”. The real value of such training was the confidence gained by the student. I hammered the idea that it was better to walk away from a partially damaged airplane than to continue into IMC and end up a statistic.
Today, most insurance policies would prevent such instruction. Too bad. There is huge difference between a low approach and actually landing the aircraft. Sure, you can (and should) practice this at an airport but the conditions and “surprise factor are just not the same.

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