Dav8or
Final Approach
Dave, when ATC tells you to drop 2000 ft, do you just nose over or pull power (or a combination). My CFII taught me to pull power to lose altitude, but this almost always triggers my shock cooling alarm on my UBG17 monitor.
Well, I don't fly IFR anymore so that scenario doesn't come up often, but I would in that case nose over. If the speed was going to build up to the red, or I was on an approach and near the runway, I would nose over and start power reduction at the same time. If they give you a real crappy slam dunk, I might then choose to chop and drop. Like I said, probably not the end of the world on occasion. If they do that to you all the time at your airport, I would ask them why and then consider getting speed brakes.