Touch and Goes versus Full Stop Taxi Backs

Reasons for not doing T&G's are widely posted in this thread. Here are
two reasons to consider practicing them in any airplane you fly:

1) If you have to abort your landing for ANY reason, being up-to-speed
(no pun intended) on your T&G's is invaluable. Think of a deer or a
bird that might wander on the runway at night that you don't see until
it's almost too late. The T&G practice can come in real handy. Same
thing for go-arounds.

What do I do? It depends on the situation. I practice full-stop
landings, touch-and-go's, stop-and-go's, and any other legal (& safe)
approach/landing techniques I can learn.

2) IIRC, currency and recent experience requirements require full-stop
landings. I know this to be fact for student pilot night landings, but
don't recall what it is for me now that I'm a private pilot. Doesn't
matter since I would practice full-stop landings to be sure I meet the
letter of the law anyway.

My 2-cents. Happy Monday!

Chris



Kevin Dunlevy wrote:
A CFI I had lunch with last week suggested I should always do full stop taxi
backs instead of touch and goes when practicing landings. I've frequently
done touch and goes for about an hour when I wanted to do some quick flying,
but I tried his suggestion. I also ran into an old AOPA Flight Training
magazine that had an article suggesting full stop taxi backs instead of
touch and goes. I generally keep the pattern in tight and can do ten touch
and goes in about .8 or .9 Hobbs depending on the amount of other traffic. I
prefer towered airports for this practice, because there is another set of
eyes looking for aircraft.

Should I force myself to always do full stop taxi backs, even thought other
pilots and tower personnel seem to prefer that I do touch and goes? Kevin
Dunlevy