Questions tagged [touch-and-go]

I have seen airplanes on YouTube and even in my country doing a touch-and-go. I don't know why planes come down from thousands of feet just to touch the runway and then fly away: Is it for show? Is it to check the landing gear? Is it because of…

I just watched a video about the traffic pattern. In the comment section below, the uploader spoke about touch & go's: I don't like to do touch and go's, as a student pilot I used to do them cause you saved money, but its not worth it. Always…

I understand how to request closed traffic from the ground, and what it allows me to do (What does "closed traffic" mean?). There's another closed traffic scenario that I imagine to be common. but I'm not quite sure how to string it all…