To students,
If your instructor tells you to leave your hand on the throttle the whole flight find a new instructor. :banghead:
To Instructors,
Remember the law of primacy.
tanks
I'll argue this one all day long. Anytime my students would take their hand off the throttle, I would pull it and say "whoops there goes your engine."
It's easier to have them keep it on all the time in the beginning, then to try and explain the times it's needed and not needed. My biggest pet peeve was when students would rotate and take their hand off of the throttle.
To students,
If your instructor tells you to leave your hand on the throttle the whole flight find a new instructor. :banghead:
To Instructors,
Remember the law of primacy.
tanks
During takeoff and initial climb... yes
During low altitude maneuvers... yes
During slow flight and stalls... yes
During steep turns... sure
During approach and landing... yes
All the time... no way in hell!
They only have two hands to begin with and if one must be on the yoke at all times and the other must be on the throttle at all times then what?
Technique vs procedure.
Procedure has a black and white reference and is the law. Technique is just an opinion, and can't be graded.
This throttle thing is clearly technique.
Personally, I think the technique of keeping your hand on the throttle 100% of the time in a GA aircraft is dumb, but there's no reason why you can't/shouldn't do it if you want to.
Isn't that why there's a throttle friction setting?
And you'll be wrong all day long. Any fed or DPE will tell you the same.
I felt like keeping my hand on the throttle taught me to "feel" the aircraft better, and make power adjustments to maintain precise power settings. I don't think it's a bad thing for a student pilot - especially if the the stall warning horn starts screaming unexpectedly.
Ryan's premise is that the student will jockey the throttle too much if their hand is on the throttle the whole time.