Video tip: How to takeoff and land from a short runway
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Most of your flight training has likely occurred on a long paved runway as you continue improving your normal takeoff and landing skills. The runway length is likely two or three times longer than the performance charts require, providing plenty of extra margin as you build experience.
The next skill you’ll learn is how to achieve the maximum performance from the airplane by operating from shorter runways to achieve the short-field takeoff and landing distances published in your airplane’s performance charts.
This video tip is from Sporty’s Learn to Fly Course—everything you need to prepare for your written test and earn your pilot certificate, with online ground school, FAA test prep, and real-world training, all in one easy-to-use package.
As Sporty’s lead aviation course and video producer, Bret is usually flying an interesting airplane, and often with a camera rolling. He oversees the development, production and distribution of over 30 aviation courses from Sporty's, including the Private Pilot Learn to Fly Course. He is a flight instructor and check airman at the Sporty's Academy flight school and a senior captain on a Cessna Citation.
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Great Review of the Short Field takeoff and landing.
Thanks sporty’s for teaching me this I am just a kid but I can understand this thanks a lot.