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Old July 6th 06, 08:18 PM posted to rec.aviation.misc
Roy Smith
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Default Do you allow landings on short fields?

My club recently had an airplane damaged in an overrun on a 2200 foot
runway. This is the third such incident in the last 5 or so years
(two of which resulted in serious aircraft damage, but fortunately no
injuries). We're considering tightening up our rules about short
runways. One possibility would be to outlaw landings on anything
under 2500 feet unless you've got a commercial certificate.

We're based at HPN, where the short runway is 4500 feet. This doesn't
help keep one's short-field landing skills sharp.

I'd be interested to know what sorts of rules other clubs (or FBO's
you rent from) have about this sort of stuff.
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Old July 6th 06, 09:13 PM posted to rec.aviation.misc
Marty Shapiro
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(Roy Smith) wrote in :

My club recently had an airplane damaged in an overrun on a 2200 foot
runway. This is the third such incident in the last 5 or so years
(two of which resulted in serious aircraft damage, but fortunately no
injuries). We're considering tightening up our rules about short
runways. One possibility would be to outlaw landings on anything
under 2500 feet unless you've got a commercial certificate.

We're based at HPN, where the short runway is 4500 feet. This doesn't
help keep one's short-field landing skills sharp.

I'd be interested to know what sorts of rules other clubs (or FBO's
you rent from) have about this sort of stuff.


I've found no rhyme or reason to many of the rules regarding where one
can land. About 5 years ago, I looked at all the clubs at xxx (omitted so
as not to subject them to embarassment). Every club at that time had a
rule restricting landings to paved runways 3,000' or longer. You should
have seen the strange look I got when I asked where I was expected to
return the aircraft at the end of my flight! (The runway at xxx, a towered
field, is 2,443' x 70'.)

Out of curiousity, I just checked two clubs at xxx which have their
rules online. One didn't exist 5 years ago, and the other has eliminated
the 3,000' paved runway requirement.

The newer club prohibits operations at unimproved runways unless with
a CFI at a specified nearby airport and at high altitude airports (above
3,000' MSL) unless the pilot has a club checkout or previous logbook
experience. No other restrictions.

The other club I checked only prohibits landings on dirt, sod, or
gravel runways - or at any airport that is not listed in the AF/D unless
prior approval is given by the club manager or chief pilot. They also
prohibit touch & goes by primary students if the runway is less than 4,000'
and for anyone in a retract, high performance, or turbocharged aircraft. A
club mountain flying checkout is required for operations at an airport
higher than 2,000' MSL or over mountanous terrain over 8'000' MSL.

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Old July 6th 06, 09:28 PM posted to rec.aviation.misc
John Clear
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Default Do you allow landings on short fields?

In article ,
Marty Shapiro wrote:
The other club I checked only prohibits landings on dirt, sod, or
gravel runways - or at any airport that is not listed in the AF/D unless
prior approval is given by the club manager or chief pilot. They also
prohibit touch & goes by primary students if the runway is less than 4,000'
and for anyone in a retract, high performance, or turbocharged aircraft. A
club mountain flying checkout is required for operations at an airport
higher than 2,000' MSL or over mountanous terrain over 8'000' MSL.


If this is the club I'm thinking of, they're also know for having
rules for just about everything. They probably don't have a generic
runway requirement due to the fact that they are based out of
airports with ~2500ft runways.

John
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Old July 6th 06, 10:50 PM posted to rec.aviation.misc
Sylvain
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Default Do you allow landings on short fields?

John Clear wrote:

If this is the club I'm thinking of, they're also know for having
rules for just about everything.


Looks an awful lot like a club I know which operates from a
2443 x 70 ft runway :-) I am pretty sure -- but then I left quite
a while ago for saner pastures -- they have a checkout
procedure -- and currency requirements -- for the use of the
bathroom... the funny thing though is that all these rules don't
seem to do much good to their safety record, but I digress.

--Sylvain
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Old July 6th 06, 10:54 PM posted to rec.aviation.misc
Roy Smith
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Marty Shapiro wrote:
Yep, that's the club. At least they have removed the 3,000'
restriction. One of the clubs quickly recovered when I asked where to
return the aircraft and said the restriction only applied to non-towered
fields. How or why the presence of a control tower should make a
difference, I don't know.


The tower will make some effort to see that you land into the wind.
Downwind landings and short runways make a bad combination.


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Old July 6th 06, 11:11 PM posted to rec.aviation.misc
John Clear
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In article , Roy Smith wrote:

The tower will make some effort to see that you land into the wind.


The tower will make some effort, but sometimes it takes awhile for
them to spin things around, especially when the pattern is busy.

Downwind landings and short runways make a bad combination.


I was flying the pattern at Palo Alto (PAO) one day when the winds
were favoring 12, and then changed to a crosswind and then a ~5kt
tailwind. There was the usual 10+ planes in the pattern. I was
told I was going to be the last to land on 12 before they spun the
pattern around for 30. Unfortunately, the wind was picking up,
and I needed the runway to be about 10ft longer. Fortunately, the
plane wasn't damaged by the trip into the weeds. A few minutes later
the wind was reported as 10kts pretty much straight down the runway.
The runway at PAO is 13/31 now, so this happened quite a while ago.

It was quite eye opening to sit and calculate the landing roll with
a 10kt tailwind. It doesn't sound like much, but it will basically
double the distance needed.

John
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Old July 7th 06, 01:22 AM posted to rec.aviation.misc
Ron Natalie
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Default Do you allow landings on short fields?

Roy Smith wrote:
Marty Shapiro wrote:
Yep, that's the club. At least they have removed the 3,000'
restriction. One of the clubs quickly recovered when I asked where to
return the aircraft and said the restriction only applied to non-towered
fields. How or why the presence of a control tower should make a
difference, I don't know.


The tower will make some effort to see that you land into the wind.
Downwind landings and short runways make a bad combination.


Gee never known a tower to accept that responsiblity. As a matter
of fact I've had a few try to land me downwind. At least at an
uncontrolled field I don't even have to ask to take the preferred
runway.
 




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