On Sep 4, 12:18 am, Richard Riley wrote:
On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:48:23 -0700, John Jones
wrote:



In many airports out there, you'll find in the AFD in the comments
section, "No touch and go landings", and/or "no practice approaches".
A few examples off the top of my head:

http://airnav.com/airport/ksac
http://airnav.com/airport/kcpm

What exactly is meant by this? No touch and go landings period, or
just don't do multiple touch and go's, as in buzzing around the
pattern for an hour? It seems kind of weird to me that an airport
would totally not allow touch and go landings. I can understand not
allowing multiple touch and go's, as they create a lot of noise,
negatively effect arrivals and departures, and generally can be a big
nuisance. Compared to a full stop/taxi back, a touch and go is more
efficient, arguably less noisy, and less of a burden on other traffic
(how many times have you had to go around because some joker had to
taxi to the next taxiway?)

Is there something I'm missing?

The ones that I've dealt with have had a no touch and go rule for the
weekends, when there's a lot of traffic. 3 planes in the pattern
doing touch and goes, and that's about all a runway can handle.

Basically, the idea is if you want to do touch and goes, go to another
airport that doesn't have that much traffic. There's usually one
within a 15 minute flight anyway.

So you're saying restrictions like these only applies to multiple
touch and go's, not just one? When I do XC's with my students, we
always just do a single touch and go, then depart back. It's quick,
efficient, and arguably produces less noise. It seems kind of silly
that an airport would force you to do a full stop...