Touch and Goes versus Full Stop Taxi Backs

Dylan Smith wrote:

On 2005-09-12, Jim Burns wrote:

completing their checklists, and following procedures. Touch and gos can
prematurely lead the pilot into the takeoff phase when the landing phase
hasn't been completed. This gets increasingly important as the pilot
transitions to heavier, faster, and more complex airplanes.


Try a touch and go in a Boeing 737 - you've never been so busy. What
really concentrates the mind is the runway rushing by as you hurtle down it
in excess of 100 knots! (I've only done it in a B737 sim which was
exciting enough)

Boeing stops by here regularly with all the new planes....737's, 767's,
777's, 787's, etc. They do downwind ILS's(15 knot minimum tailwind) and
do touch and goes back to more ILS's. They do this for hours at a time.

Newps wrote:


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Boeing stops by here regularly with all the new planes....737's, 767's,
777's, 787's, etc. They do downwind ILS's(15 knot minimum tailwind) and
do touch and goes back to more ILS's. They do this for hours at a time.


I saw an AWACS 707 (don't know the military designation) doing touch and
go's while driving through Belgium. I was surprised as I thought the cost
of such activity would relegate it to the simulator. He went around at
least twice while in my view, I even got the "go" on film.
--
Frank....H

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:30:17 -0500, Frank wrote:

I saw an AWACS 707 (don't know the military designation) doing touch and
go's while driving through Belgium. I was surprised as I thought the cost
of such activity would relegate it to the simulator.

I live across Great Bay from the former Pease AFB, which still houses
a NH National Guard KC-135 tanker squadron. On a summer's day--they
particularly like Sunday at 4 p.m., when you are most likely to have
folks over for tea--they'll do T&Gs for an hour or two. It's a long
pattern, so they don't get many in, ten maybe?

(At least I assume it's T&G. They could I suppose taxi off the runway
and substutite another pilot, or even another aircraft: "Okay, your
turn!" Heck, they could have ten pilots in the plane, all lined up
waiting their turn.)



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Cub Driver wrote:

(At least I assume it's T&G. They could I suppose taxi off the runway
and substutite another pilot, or even another aircraft: "Okay, your
turn!" Heck, they could have ten pilots in the plane, all lined up
waiting their turn.)

I seem to remember hearing the tower talk about the T&Gs the last
time I flew by Pease (last year). (And there would be no need for a full
stop in order to change pilots - unless the USAF has a procedural
requirement for that when below 10000').

--
Bob Noel
no one likes an educated mule