Originally Posted by ChinookDriver47

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?