No touch and go's?

On Sep 4, 3:06 pm, wrote:
On Sep 4, 5:18 am, john wrote:



And I've seen them for overall length issues. My home airport is 2500
feet with 2-400 foot displaced thresholds so T&G would not be very safe
there.

Some might have safety issues with touch-and-goes. Transport Canada
says that the touch-and-go is statistically risky and that numerous
accidents have been recorded during such operations. The pilot is
frequently distracted by cleaning up the airplane for the takeoff and
loses control, forgets flaps or carb heat, etc.


Many years ago I lived in some apartments a block from
the Wood County airport in Bowling Green Ohio. Just past
the end of the runway that was more or less aligned with
our building was a deep drainage ditch and a low chainlink
fence, then an intersection where two streets made a tee.

I was watching a (presumably) student pilot doing touch and
goes on that runway one day when they touched down hard
in that intersection on the wrong side of the ditch from the runway
and then got airborne again in time to clear the fence.

I didn't realize before then how much travel there was in the
suspension in a Cessna landing gear. They practically
scraped the belly of the plane on the road. It literally
bounced back into the air.

Two years later someone took off from that runway with
four passengers and too much fuel, stalled, and dropped
into the apartments next door killing all four aboard.

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FF