Ignoring criticism? Not in the least I welcome it all so long as it's based on accurate details.

You make statements as if factual yet how could you know? You say I don't know what his abilities are... Dead wrong. You say he was risking our lives but he wasn't. I was there. Breaking out at 800agl with a sink rate and wheel's in the wells? Where did you hear this I didn't say that. I said we leveled out 1.5k high on the IAF about 10nm out. put in the flaps, dropped the grear. And with the engines at idle followed the approach down while bleeding off airspeed at all times. It's not ignoring criticism. I admitted I should have known how to use the functions of the GPS I was asking about. You are bending what happened. yes it was beyond my abilities. That's what practice is for. The actual approach was commenced and executed using normal maneuvers. It was initiated with a higher airspeed and higher altitude. however "pitch for airspeed power for altitude" we cut the power, increased sink rate to match forward speed. As the speed bled off we landed dead on. Everything that happened rapid was prior to the approach in VFR conditions. You keep talking about busting out at 800 agl but that's what the darn approch is for. It takes you down below 800AGL. If there's a tower there then someone really screwed the pooch on the approach plates.

what's not legal about having engines at idle? how did you manage to get a single rating without having come in hot for a few landings, or slow for a few, or pitching back to quickly on takeoff? Every student I have comes in way to fast sometimes and way to slow others. If they didn't they wouldn't need an instructor to teach em better. I have a hawker who all the sudden pops up on freq stating he's on a 4nm final and I'm about 1/2mile in a 172. I tell my student to keep the speed up and it won't be an issue. Anything wrong with instructing him to do so? That's a real world situation and if you don't train for it you might as well hang up the wings. I never said anything we did was normal. It was for me to experience.