Flying Touch-and-Goes: My First Steps to Mastering Landings

We have started practicing touch-and-goes, where the airplane touches down and immediately takes off again without stopping. This helps to make landing practice quicker, as we save time by avoiding full stops and taxiing back to the runway.

Traffic pattern in LKLN

Luckily, I can fly circuits at my home aerodrome without having to pay landing fees, which is not always the case in Europe. Some flight schools charge their students for landing fees, while others try to find uncontrolled airports where no fees are charged. I’m grateful for the opportunity to practice circuits without having to pay landing fees at my home base, and the long concrete runway is also an advantage at the early stage.

While my circuits are almost okay, my landings still need improvement. I think I feel much calmer at altitude, which may explain why I struggle with landings. Each circuit takes about seven minutes, which is quite long, while a landing only takes a few seconds. Unfortunately, I can’t practice landings only and must spend precious flight time on flying traffic patterns. I miss the Western Step on Klement’eva hill, where I used to practice landings on a hang-glider without having to worry about long approaches or circuits…

All I needed was bringing back the hang-glider up to the hill 🙂


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Milestones

04/09/2017: My First Flight
04/25/2017: EASA PPL written exam (6 exams passed)
05/21/2017: Radio Operator Certificate (Europe VFR)
05/22/2017: EASA PPL written exam (all passed)
05/26/2017: The First Solo!
05/28/2017: Solo cross-country >270 km
05/31/2017: EASA PPL check-ride
07/22/2017: EASA IFR English
08/03/2017: 100 hours TT
12/04/2017: The first IFR flight
12/28/2017: FAA IR written
02/16/2018: FAA IR check-ride
05/28/2018: FAA Tailwheel endorsement
06/04/2018: FAA CPL long cross-country
06/07/2018: FAA CPL written
07/16/2018: FAA CPL check-ride
07/28/2018: FAA CPL ME rating
08/03/2018: FAA HP endorsement
06/03/2019: EASA ATPL theory (6/14)
07/03/2019: EASA ATPL theory (11/14)
07/15/2019: FAA IR IPC
07/18/2019: FAA CPL SES rating
08/07/2019: EASA ATPL theory (done)
10/10/2019: EASA NVFR
10/13/2019: EASA IR/PBN SE
11/19/2019: Solo XC > 540 km
12/06/2019: EASA CPL
12/10/2019: EASA AMEL
02/20/2020: Cessna 210 endorsement
08/30/2021: FAVT validation
05/27/2022: TCCA CPL/IR written
05/31/2022: Radio Operator Certificate Canada