bunk22
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You know, that whole boat thing keeps you busy.
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You know, that whole boat thing keeps you busy.
Hacker15e
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Touch and goes on the boat?
The "rest of the world" performs the after takeoff checklist (or pattern checklist) while staying in the pattern, and that usually means deconfiguring.
So far as I know, Naval Aviation is unique in keeping gear and flaps in the landing configuration while performing pattern and landing practice.
Many aircraft have limits on gear cycles, and that sometimes will influence how much they cycle the gear in landing practice, but so far as I know they still do it until they hit that ops limit.
///AMG
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Well I suppose we might be the odd ones out, but it just seems weird to add extra busy work to the pattern. Then again, you guys have the whole inner/outer pattern thing, so maybe it makes more sense for that. Having everyone at basically a constant airspeed in the closed FCLP pattern is definitely nice for interval purposes though
bunk22
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Yep, touch and go's happen at the boat...sometimes accidentally
Like on a bolter or forgetting to put that hook down...it has happened. When you first qual, you need 10 and 2, 10 traps and 2 tough-n-go's. At the FRS, you need 10/2 day and 6/4 and night as I recall. It's just easier to keep the gear/flaps/slats down, less work. The max gear/flap/slat speed for the 45 is 200KIAS and for the C-2A, it was 190KIAS for the gear/flaps. On speed is much less for both so no worries about overspeeding near optimum AOA.