how have you been shown a bad WX circuit?

[TangoZulu]

500ft or so

80kts

2 stages of flap in PA-28

Not outside the airfield boundary to make sure you keep the runway in sight at all times having broken out of cloud (did them all the time during the IMC course - down the ILS to 500ft then bad Wx cct to land)

Never seems to be a problem to do them at Bournemouth

TZ

[QDMQDMQDM]

500 feet is the average circuit height at farm strips, with typically a racetrack pattern. Low level, bad weather circuit is 1-200 feet, about 60-120 seconds wheels rolling to wheels stopped.

QDM

[shortstripper]

Not really the same thing ... but I can't help mentioning one of my favourite flights ever ... but it only lasted about four minutes (if that)

I wanted to move the VP2 from a field on one side of the farm to one on the other....

Took off, hopped over the hedge, dropped down a (very) small incline, climbed to clear some trees and landed ... great fun!

SS

[millermilla]

I done bad weather circuits as part on my training and flew an oval circuit at 600ft. It was one of those exercises that was quite enjoyable to be practicing but as for doing it for real....NO THANKS!
I also done an engine failure from the overhead at 2000ft landing on the runway. Is this part of the PPL sylabus to actualy land from a simulated engine failure? The landing was after practicing PFL's and without me knowing in the overhead the instructor chopped the throttle.


Best Regards


Keith

[Thirty06]

I was shown the oval circuit at 600ft, pretty much inside the fence.

Then I went to an airfield where the circuit height is 600ft and was expected to fly a regular rectangle. I think their low level circuit is for hedge trimming purposes.

Landing from a PFL, I reckon it's essential. I was shown an overhead join with a quick pulling of the throttles on the way down so that I had to judge the glide in. Made it. Another student was apparently on the downwind leg when the instructor chopped the throttles and said 'Land it'.

In the GFT the prescence of other aircraft means that you will only get to demonstrate the glide approach. You get to nominate where the engine goes off and then land. My examiner nominated a set of marks on the runway and I had to reach them, a jolly finale to a GFT.

[IO540]

QDM

The difference there is that the planes tend to be a lot slower anyway. It's a lot easier to fly a tight circuit at 50kt than at 110kt.

[Flyin'Dutch']

Low level, bad weather circuit is 1-200 feet, about 60-120 seconds wheels rolling to wheels stopped.

Show off!



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