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Old 22nd Oct 2003, 23:35
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tom775257
 
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During my training I was with an instructor who believed people should be allowed to make mistakes, therefore learn from them.

Anyway I made a silly one, I rounded out far too high, and I was very slow and high and flaring like mad to prevent high rate of descent…..sure enough that sinking feeling came, just as I punched in full throttle. Keeping the nose high to protect the nose wheel I descended onto the runway with full power on. I bounced off the runway off the MLG, on the return it launched me a few feet into the air and I was off on the go around, no harm to the aircraft. In a bounce you can recover and go around.

You can get out of potentially really nasty situations (such as high and slow) without much experience as long as you follow the go around procedure. Once you have a bit more experience you will be able to fix botched approaches/ landings. For now if it is looking bad, just bin it and G/A.

Good luck,
Tom.
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