LIBRARY 165 · ARLINGTON SCENARIO 10 · TEXT PRACTICE

Runway 34: abandon an unstable touch and go

Break repetition when an approach is unsafe; retain the correct local departure and pattern direction.

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Your scenario

Training simulation only. Arlington, runway three four, left traffic. The fictional wind is three four zero at four knots. You are SportStar Eight Two Seven Echo Victor, an Evektor SportStar Max. Small-propeller pattern altitude is one thousand two hundred feet MSL. Use self-announcements, and keep flying and looking for traffic ahead of radio work.

Practice goals

Respond aloud during the 10- or 12-second response windows. Pause longer whenever needed. Private decisions have no time limit in text practice. Aircraft control comes before speech.

Read the scenario script Text lesson script

This script supports the text practice exercise. Responses appear after each practice prompt.

  1. Draft for instructor review. Fictional traffic and weather. Practice self-announcements, not controller readbacks. Aircraft controls, checklist verification, and cockpit scoring are disabled. Respond aloud during each silent window. Pause the video for more time. Aircraft control always comes before speech.
  2. Training simulation only. Arlington, runway three four, left traffic. The fictional wind is three four zero at four knots. You are SportStar Eight Two Seven Echo Victor, an Evektor SportStar Max. Small-propeller pattern altitude is one thousand two hundred feet MSL. Use self-announcements, and keep flying and looking for traffic ahead of radio work.
  3. This is the third planned touch-and-go circuit. You are on final runway three four after a left pattern. The approach no longer meets the airplane and instructor stabilization criteria. Those criteria come from the applicable aircraft procedure and instructor review. The reviewed SFS manual requires stable approaches and forbids trying to rescue an unstable approach below two hundred feet AGL.
  4. That is not a cue to wait until two hundred feet; abandon an unsafe approach as soon as it is identified.
  5. Do you continue to finish the scheduled repetition?
  6. Pause the video now and decide. This is a private decision, not a radio transmission. Resume when ready.
  7. No. Execute the go-around using the airplane procedures and maintain safe separation. Announce when able.
  8. Once flying the go-around and able to transmit, state your current action.
  9. Arlington traffic, SportStar Eight Two Seven Echo Victor, going around runway three four, remaining in left traffic, Arlington.
  10. Continue the departure leg on runway heading until beyond the departure end and north of the ridge. The simulation advances only after you are within three hundred feet below pattern altitude, the path is clear, and a normal left crosswind turn is appropriate.
  11. Join downwind at pattern altitude, continuing the visual scan and listening watch. The script does not set aircraft speeds, flap settings, bank angles, or exact turn points.
  12. Circuit 4. Your plan for this circuit is full stop.
  13. You are established on left downwind for runway three four. The intended landing is full stop. Make the position call when workload and the frequency permit.
  14. Arlington traffic, SportStar Eight Two Seven Echo Victor, left downwind runway three four, full stop, Arlington.
  15. You are established on left base for runway three four. The intended landing is full stop. Make the position call when workload and the frequency permit.
  16. Arlington traffic, SportStar Eight Two Seven Echo Victor, left base runway three four, full stop, Arlington.
  17. You are established on final for runway three four. The intended landing is full stop. Make the position call when workload and the frequency permit.
  18. Arlington traffic, SportStar Eight Two Seven Echo Victor, final runway three four, full stop, Arlington.
  19. You land and leave the landing runway at a suitable exit. The entire airplane is beyond the applicable runway holding-position markings and is clear of the landing runway. You remain clear of any other runway; no taxi route is implied.
  20. Now announce that you are clear of the landing runway.
  21. Arlington traffic, SportStar Eight Two Seven Echo Victor, clear of runway three four, Arlington.
  22. End of this scenario. A clear-of-runway announcement describes an observed position. It is never a clearance for another aircraft or a substitute for a visual check.
  23. The go-around carries the same runway three four ridge-line consideration before the crosswind turn. The repetition count has no priority over a safe flight decision. A second go-around is acceptable if the next approach is also unsafe.
  24. End of this draft practice. Review current sources and applicable aircraft documents with a qualified instructor before operational use.

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