Mark ---- I also put my students in odd situations by using the switch for the buddy box. I tell them that we are going to play " FIX IT ". You fly the plane in the normal pattern and at times I'm going to mess it up and it's up to you to put it right and back in the pattern. Just make sure that they are ready for this kind of thing and always let them know it's time to play.

I've found that this teaches recovery in a fun way and makes teaching landings a lot easier on the instructor and student as they don't normally make those normally dumb mistakes.

Hossfly made a comment that he likes to keep the instructor throttle set at 100 %, A good idea especially for a new instructor ( not meaning he's new ) my self I like to keep it set at about 3/4 , that way if the student is at very low throttle it isn't like jamming the throttle, which at times will flood the engine and kill it.

This has turned out to be a very interesting thread and it sort of gives us instructors some ideas that other instructors are using. The neat thing is you can take all the ideas that sound good to you and put them into play on your end, if they work --fine if not use something else. ENJOY !!! RED