Hey guys! Jon from Fly8ma.com and today I'm here to talk to you about
touch and gos. You're probably pretty excited thinking about getting into the
pattern with your instructor here and we're going to walk you through all the
procedures for pulling a normal traffic pattern and how to go through doing a
normal touch and go in a Piper Cherokee.
Looks good there on the left. We'll go ahead and turn our downwind
so
besides just approaching the airport and entering the pattern as we happen, now
we're staying in the traffic pattern and we're going to be configuring the
airplane as we normally would a be mark touchdown point. So as I get even with my
touchdown point, not even with the end of the runway, but my touchdown point,
that could be the thousand foot markers, that could be the numbers, that could be
the end of the runway, it could be anything but a theme the intended point
of touchdown that's when you want to go ahead and start configuring your
airplane and in the piper cherokee we're going to use a simple mnemonic device
checklist which is ppff power pitch flaps fuel pump that's the order we're
going to do them in and we're just remembering what numbers we should aim
for so power is coming back to 1700 here then pitch is going to be ATS or
pitching the airplane for 80 miles per hour and trimming to help us with that
then flap the 10 and fuel pump will switch on
and so we're b-mart touchdown point we'll go ahead and start configuring the
airplane power back to 1700 here pitching for 80 miles per hour
trimming to help me there and put my flaps of 10 fuel pump on and by this
time we're at a thousand feet now we're going to start slowly descending down
now we can see our vertical speed going to about minus 500 feet a minute sort of
a nice 500 foot per minute descent that's perfect we're flying out
well flowing out we're going to be aiming for about 45 degrees off our
shoulder to the end of the runway to determine when we want to turn our face
so we're on about 1/2 to 3/4 mile distance from the runway here so about
3/4 a mile or a mile away we're going to turn our left face and we're getting
towards that point here so I can go ahead and start turning my left face now
and we'll make that radio call Venice traffic cherokees here some whiskey left
base runway 2 3 Venice traffic now I'm aiming for a target or SB this entire
time very important to maintain air speed and watch the runway those are
their two main priorities when you're in the traffic pattern performing touching
goes or low approaches the runway in the air speed everything looks good here
we'll go ahead and go to 25 degrees of flaps waiting till I'm wings level touch
flaps never touching flaps in a turn they'll clear on the left clear on the
right
now if I determine I'm high maybe because I have some thermals holding me
up I could go ahead and reduce power but determine that I'm below I could add
powering power will be for altitude pitch is going to be for airspeed so
pitch for airspeed power for altitude that will not change all the way through
the approach and I want to keep my hand on the throttle so if you're in the left
seat you'll be keeping your right hand on the throttle all the way down through
landing even after landing look one more time clear on the right nobody else is
on final go ahead and start rolling onto my final leg here Venice traffic
cherokees zero seven whiskey final runway two three touch go Venice traffic
so on the final leg sometimes I'll include them a touch and go for let
everyone know that I'm touching go traffic instead of full stop or a little
high here so I'll reduce power try to get back down on the glide slope we have
a little bit of thermals coming off the Maitland here holding some in the air
we've got one of the aircraft that's cross one for our runway we visually
check runway is clear announce runway is clear and it looks good we got a little
bit of right cross when we can correct for short final go ahead SAR putting
that crosswind correction and left rudder right wing down caricature shovel
will helicopter right off please we'll keep an eye out for you traffic
helicopter or since I picked Olivos over the center fielder just now as we
come on to glide slope er book full of parents and they want to continue to go
below glide so if we have one helicopter at the end of a runway we'll watch out
for this touch-and-go here might be a good time make it a full stop look at
all the way now that runway my gaze is continued down the runway and reducing
power to help the airplane come down maintaining that airspeed just to a few
feet off the ground now reducing power and just letting the airplane run out of
energy run out of speed bright we little touch first and as we touch rolling all
the way over with crosswind correction following through and go back to ten
degrees of flaps or takeoff everything set go ahead and add in full power as we
accelerate point two slowly unroll that Crossman correction check we're clear
left and right there's rotation speed will rotate and
now I trimmed nose up back there when I came to the land so I might have to
fight that trim here and May Tanvi why 85 miles per hour on climb out
fighting that trip don't need to reach up right now and try to reach rim just
keep that hand on the throttle and fly the airplane the Venice traffic
Cherokees here's some whisky upwind runway 2 3 - traffic helicopters pass no
factor
and we never touch box below 200 feet we're above 200 but we've only had 10
flaps in so I'm going to go ahead and leave 10 flaps set until we turn left
crosswind air wings level on the crosswind leg now normally I would wait
till 500 feet ready for going offshore with blue to the dark uborrow we're
getting close shorter than I would go ahead and turn
my crosswind like a little earlier the aim says to turn cross one at 700 feet
however in a lot of these underpowered airplanes that could take you very far
for the airport we don't want to be quite that far offshore so we're going
to turn a little sooner than that that's traffic Cherokees hear someone
ski left crosswind runway 2 3 venice traffic no Rowling's level here and with
wings level we'll go ahead and get rid of our flaps and turn our fuel pump to
off
I'm going to go ahead and reenter the
fetish traffic cherokee zero whiskey left downwind runway two three venice
traffic and i'm watching my own suit here as i come up through nine fifty I'm
going to start thinking about pushing forward and reducing power now when I
level off here I wanted to go no higher the charge pattern l2 so there's a
thousand feet I'm going to push forward reduce power most of all I'm letting the
airplane speed up a four hour reduce power don't want to reduce power too
early here I'm really fighting it with pitch I'm really pushing forward
fighting that trip and I'm really pushing right now I'd rather just keep
pushing and fighting the trip rather than having to trim those down right
here and then trim nose up again just in a moment so power set airspeed set
cruising along at a thousand feet or midfield left downwind for runway two
three we've got one other airplane on base turning final here and then we're
going to go ahead and just keep repeating this procedure practicing our
landings a be more touchdown point here I'm going to go ahead and do ppff power
back to 1700 pitching 480 miles per hour just releasing some that back pressure
holding in there pinch started me trim 480 marker though would you just watch
my nose not like the nose pop up your club of the horizon now letting it get
too low that gives me 80 just right there now I can let go or 80 miles per
hour flaps coming in and degrees the flaps feel pump on there it is ppff
power pitch flaps fuel pump I'm cruising past my touchdown point here you know we
talked about 45 degrees off my left shoulder then turn my left face starting
down at a nice general descent here
and maintaining a tea using pitch to maintain 80 miles per hour that's the
main priority you may have noticed that RPMs roll back a little bit we initially
set 1700 it's roll back to about 15 that's totally fine that's intended we
just use 1700 as an initial setting and then we can make rpm whatever we want to
control our altitude along the approach so if we ever get too low it doesn't
matter go full power if you get way too high go ahead and go all the way to idle
if you have to whatever it takes to control the airplane the way you want
about 45 degrees we'll go ahead and make our 2 left pace turn here then ago thank
you stop traffic sure keys here so let's keep left base runway 2 three events
traffic still holding airspeed all through this turn not let the dough's
get too low or too high as we roll out here check-in left and right no other
airplanes near us we'll go ahead and go 25 flaps on base vinyls clear out there
will continue on baseline continue our descent
and this time we know there's some thermals out here holding us up so I'm
gonna reduce power a little bit earlier try to get on glide slope a little
earlier intercept the glide slope and follow it in and I stabilized power on
approach using 25 flaps that's pretty standard on a touch-and-go unless you
get really too high or you want to practice some full flap landings then
you could go ahead and use pole flaps to bring in some more drag we're clear on
the right look good and we can start turning final here let's try picture
keys here some whiskey turning final runway 2 3 venice traffic so we are
final 4 way to 3 and venice traffic cessna 178 you'll be a left turn out
departure to the bit of traffic and now i said turning that time i don't always
say turning final usually just announced the final because it's shorter it's
quicker i said turning final because we're kind of in that long slow turn to
the light right now hey I'm waiting high right now and if you're looking for me
you'll notice that I'm an airplane with my wing high a lot easier to spot that
way we got 25 flaps that we're right on glide slope I'm just going to leave
everything way it is because we're coming down on glide slope don't need
more power don't need any less I saw two white lights I could reduce a little
power there now help bring us down more get picked up over some of these
buildings on the blacktop parking lots and as we come over the intercoastal
expect some sync we might go a little bit below glide slope here and same
thing as before as we get closer I'm going to use some left rudder straighten
up my nose right wing down get a little bit of right cross from coming here and
we're just making this touch-and-go it's me right wheel first falling through the
landing ending it all the way over as soon as I feel the wheel contact I make
sure the power is all the way back to idle and then as we're rolling out all
set flaps and add full power to take off again using power to make a nice stable
approach all the way the ground nice and slow descent rate not getting fast not
going slow now I've been ground effect reducing power plug it all the way back
just holding the airplane off to run out of energy and ground effect here and a
little bit of wet there right wheel first left wheel goes wheel
and roll it all the way over falling through with that setting flaps and
we're going to go ahead and depart as I pick up speed rolling out that crosswind
correction checking clear left and right as we cross the runway there's rotation
speed rotating and fighting that trim as we accelerate to V why don't let the
airplane get slow here there is such thing as a trim stall they talk about
airplanes going into a power on stall because of trim you really have to fight
it keep the airplane is V Y - traffic turkeys here so I'm one ski up one run
right - three events traffic now I'm making the up wind call here because the
last call I made was over a minute ago back on final so it's a long time be
flying around the airport without making any traffic call so I like to make that
traffic call up wid when I'm staying in the pattern unless you're too busy
that's okay it's not a required call actually none of these are required
calls in the traffic pattern but it's a good habit to be in to let other planes
know where you're at now four or five minutes start making that turn didn't
wait till 500 or 700 we're going too far offshore here Venice traffic shirk easy
one ski left crosswind runway two three Venice traffic and once again wings
level on crosswind here we'll go ahead and get rid of my flaps and get rid of
the fuel pump retract flaps feel pop off hey guys thanks so much for watching and
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