kellwolf
Piece of Trash
How many airline pilots keep your hand on the throttle the whole flight?
Apples to oranges. We're talking two totally different designs for different experience levels. For what it's worth, I actually DO keep my hands on the thrust levers when I'm hand flying. The thrust levers on the CRJ don't have the annoying habit of vibrating backwards and slowly reducing power like some of the 172s I've flown.
How many instructors here keep your hand on the throttle when your flying by yourself?
Me.
Then why do we teach our students this??
For one, it's how I was taught. Secondly, the aforementioned "throttle back out" issue.
Here is the problems with it...
1. Fluctuating between 2000 and 2400 RPM is annoying.
2. Correcting loss or gain of altitude with small power corrections is WRONG technique.
Annoying to you. Doesn't bother me, actually. And there's a huge difference between "wrong technique" and "any fed or DPE will tell you you're wrong." If it's a wrong TECHNIQUE, then it's a localized issue. Show me a book or FAA/NTSB filing that says it's wrong. I agree that correcting altitude deviations that way probably isn't the right way to do it, but it's a TECHNIQUE issue, not a "right" or "wrong" issue. Remember fundamentals of instruction and using absolutes?
4. Its gonna be hard when they get to their instrument training and they cant look at charts and IAP's because they are used to keeping their hand on the throttle.
I'm not saying glue your hand to the throttle, but if you're not using it for something else (like flipping through charts), what's the harm in having it there?