Might be time for me to ask a question.
Why are you doing night circuits? If it's to have fun or to gain competence at some highly specific task, by all means do t&g within a 200meter box, or whatever. You've got a license which qualifies you to make your own judgments.
Most students however do night circuits when they're inexperienced and learning how to land and to take off at night. In the early stages of training I query the benefit of an abbreviated exercise (because it short cuts the learning process) and the risk of a touch & go (because students, by definition, do crazy things occasionally). Once the student is a qualified night pilot, they aren't students any more and can make their own judgments.
For me, I did plenty of touch and goes at certain times when learning, although it was on a 1800m instrument runway with all relevant aids (lights, PAPI etc). Wasn't world's best practice, but wasn't dangerous either. On a 1000m basic-lighting runway, I would encourage stop and go or stop and backtrack depending on LDR etc.
Regards to all,
O8
Last edited by Oktas8; 4th September 2012 at 09:35.