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Old 4th Feb 2003, 18:54
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Pilot16
 
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Im still a student so I dont fit in the 'experienced' catagory...
you dont have to take my words

The secret is (ahem) :

1) Make sure you dont flare too long
2) to do this you need to be careful on your airspeed (keep it low but not below minimum) and maintain an accurate glide path, so you touch just after your aiming point (without eating a lot of runway), that way you have plenty of room for your take off roll for t&g, therefore there is no need to be erring

What i do if I run short of runway and have decided to carry on with touch and go, is make a take off much like a short field take off (a low climb angle untill airspeed has reached sufficiently high) before I commence best rate of climb.

I hope i made sense there

and congratulations on passing your skill test!!

P16
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