Flaps or no Flaps, that is the question.
I work at a flight school teaching 141 instrument students in 172's. I recently raised concerns about configuration settings from the FAF inbound. I have been teaching approach flaps FAF inbound and holding about 80KIAS. I am getting told, "shoot all approaches clean. Add flaps at breakout or land clean. That's whats in the SOP" . I either forgot that, or don't recall reading that.
This blows my mind that this an accepted method and there is an AC that contradicts this exact practice. I am raising it as a safety concern.
Thoughts? Am i being to knit-picky? Should I just ****?
Is there something regulatory I can fall back on to facilitate a change?