Hey, I have a question about backtracking.
I had a flying lesson on friday to see how it is, and i'm starting training in december hopefully for my GFPT and PPL and possibly CPL, I was just wondering, when we took off, we were in a Cessna C172SP, and the runway had about 50 metres to the threshold from the closest taxiway. like
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so anyway, i noticed that my instructor backtracked, though we took less than a 3rd of the runway to take off, why is this? is it mandatory to backtrack?
(I was at YRED by the way, if it helps)
It was weird, made it fun, but the lesson went really great
