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Tuesday, June 8, 2010
A Question
Here's a question that came up during our post-flight talk this morning: What are some benefits and drawbacks to performing touch-and-goes as opposed to complete landings resulting in turning off onto the parallel/taxiway?
drawbacks: there is added complexity with a T&G, you are not able to practice a normal TO, more things to coordinate on take off becasue some people will not retract all flaps on a T&G but leave 10 degrees in ... which means you now have to do a different procedure for a T&G vs a full stop landing/takeoff, in a busy pattern you may be delaying planes on the ground from taking off, you never complete the full landing process so you are not practicing a complete landing. Benefits -- it sounds cool to say I did a touch and go, in a busy pattern you don't have to wait for #4 to land before it is your turn to take off
Great question... this will serve as QOD#24. Still waiting for an answer to QOD#23 - Herb gave a good hint!!!
ReplyDeletedrawbacks: there is added complexity with a T&G, you are not able to practice a normal TO, more things to coordinate on take off becasue some people will not retract all flaps on a T&G but leave 10 degrees in ... which means you now have to do a different procedure for a T&G vs a full stop landing/takeoff, in a busy pattern you may be delaying planes on the ground from taking off, you never complete the full landing process so you are not practicing a complete landing.
ReplyDeleteBenefits -- it sounds cool to say I did a touch and go, in a busy pattern you don't have to wait for #4 to land before it is your turn to take off