Tips For Touch and Go For Private Pilots - ATP Flight School

Any course that any individual is taking that is involvinginstructions to what they are to use to as far as their
any type of training it has its own jargon. When itpattern.
comes to private pilot one of the most favored termsThere are several patterns when it comes to flying
that is used is touch and go.and each of these must be learned and must be
This is something that is heard repeatedly in thefollowed whenever instructed to do so. The first one is
beginning perhaps, and the student pilot doesn't realizeif you are told to go straight out from the one runway
the importance of it.you are in the up wind. You may be told that you have
It's ironic to think that many of the thoughts that crossto fly into the cross wind.
a students mind when they are first join the pilotThird is what is called at the downwind. This is where
program is that when it comes to landing they justthe wind will be behind you but the fourth is the base
figure that once they arrive at the airport whicheverthis is where you go to see those numbers that are
runway happens to be free is the one that they canpainted on the runway are going to be really important
land.to you.
This is not the way it works and the student pilot soonAnd finally the last stage is number five this means
finds out that he will be told where to land. Thethat landing is eminent.
information that this is based on is in what direction thatThe five areas that we just talked about is what the
the wind is coming from. Pilots will be taught that theypattern of flying is all about.You will certainly learn to
must go towards the wind and that they have to keepappreciate the control tower who will normally give
as consistent of a straight line as possible whenyou your flying pattern instructions. However there will
landing.be times that you will be doing this on your own.
They also have to consider that they're not in the airAs there will be no support service for this, this is why
alone that there are other planes up there with themit's really important that you understand and know
and this is usually around the 10,000 feet mar. Therethese patterns.
are times when the pilots will be given alternate