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Old 09-20-2004 | 04:40 PM
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Default RE: touch and gos

Full throttle bounce-and-goes can be a lot of fun for those of us wacky enough to try it, but you have to try it safely, so that if something goes wrong, you only stuff your own plane. (I've even tried full throttle touch and goes with a hand-launch combat plane, ie, no wheels. Just scrape the wingtip and go. But I've also done a few full throttle belly landings trying it. Pretty funny, and doesn't have to be unsafe.

That said, I agree that it's not at all the same as a real touch and go. Real touch and goes are also great fun. Keeping the nosewheel from touching is one of my favorates. It helps to move the CG back to pull that one off.