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Old 19th April 2012 | 02:01
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abgd
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Free landings and t&gs also at Inverness airport (Highlands aviation).

I never counted them, but I also had well over 100 t&gs by the time I qualified. I was doing quite nice 'standard' landings from early on but learned that I could still be caught out by the unexpected. You need to do a certain number of t/o and landings in order to gain unexpected experience.

The most interesting were 2 go-arounds (one on a crosswind landing and one at a short strip) where I may have come unstuck without an instructor.

Different flavours include:

Glide approach
Flapless
Stuck throttle approach
Bad weather circuit
Night t/o and landings
Short field takeoffs
Crosswind landings
Simulated instrument approaches

so there's plenty to practice. Next time the weather permits I may just go up with an instructor for a dozen crosswind landings.
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