Touch-And-Go
Landing and taking off without a pause. Useful to practise when learning to fly.
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Touch-And-Go - Landing practice wherein an aircraft does not make a full stop after a landing, but proceeds immediately to another take-off.
(See TOUCH-AND-GO.)
TOUCHDOWN-
a. The point at which an aircraft first makes contact with the landing surface.
1 If you are staying in the traffic pattern, doing touch-and-goes, you must brief the landing checklist before takeoff.
Because carburettor heat is taken off before taking off during touch-and-go's, many students think that the carburettor heat must go off before throttle application. It doesn't.
After about 10 touch-and-goes [with the tires properly inflated], he decided that he didn't like the look of the soft tires, so he put about 24 pounds in them.
Airport Operation: A landing or a takeoff at an airport. (A low approach below traffic pattern altitude or a touch-and-go operation are counted as both a landing and a takeoff; i.e., two operations.) ...
August 2 - Cessna 501, N15NY. Thurman Munson, catcher for the New York Yankees, died in a crash of his personal jet while practicing touch-and-go landings at Akron-Canton Regional Airport.
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 See also: Aircraft, Landing, Direct, Pilot, Flight
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