LIBRARY 168 · ARLINGTON SCENARIO 13 · TEXT PRACTICE
Runway 16: reject a missed touchdown target
Recognize before touchdown that the first-third criterion cannot be met and go around without delaying for radio.
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Your scenario
Training simulation only. Arlington, runway one six, right traffic. The fictional wind is one six zero at seven 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
- Recognize before touchdown that the first-third criterion cannot be met and go around without delaying for radio.
- Practice self-announcements with aircraft control ahead of speech.
- Aircraft actions, checklist verification, and cockpit scoring remain disabled.
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.
- 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.
- Training simulation only. Arlington, runway one six, right traffic. The fictional wind is one six zero at seven 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.
- You are still airborne over runway one six on a planned touch and go. You recognize that you cannot achieve touchdown within the first third of the runway. The simulated go-around path is clear. The reviewed SFS manual requires a go-around when its first-third touchdown criterion cannot be met.
- What do you do now, before touchdown or a radio call?
- Pause the video now and decide. This is a private decision, not a radio transmission. Resume when ready.
- Execute the go-around using the applicable aircraft procedure. Do not force or prolong the landing to preserve the touch-and-go count, and do not wait for radio permission. Communicate only after aircraft control permits.
- The go-around is established and you can safely transmit. Announce it.
- Arlington traffic, SportStar Eight Two Seven Echo Victor, going around runway one six, remaining in right traffic, Arlington.
- The simulation advances only after you are beyond the departure end, within three hundred feet below pattern altitude, the path is clear, and a normal right crosswind turn is appropriate.
- 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.
- Circuit 2. Your plan for this circuit is full stop.
- You are established on right downwind for runway one six. The intended landing is full stop. Make the position call when workload and the frequency permit.
- Arlington traffic, SportStar Eight Two Seven Echo Victor, right downwind runway one six, full stop, Arlington.
- You are established on right base for runway one six. The intended landing is full stop. Make the position call when workload and the frequency permit.
- Arlington traffic, SportStar Eight Two Seven Echo Victor, right base runway one six, full stop, Arlington.
- You are established on final for runway one six. The intended landing is full stop. Make the position call when workload and the frequency permit.
- Arlington traffic, SportStar Eight Two Seven Echo Victor, final runway one six, full stop, Arlington.
- 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.
- Now announce that you are clear of the landing runway.
- Arlington traffic, SportStar Eight Two Seven Echo Victor, clear of runway one six, Arlington.
- 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.
- This decision was made while still airborne. It does not prescribe an automatic takeoff after a long touchdown regardless of runway remaining. The first-third and stabilized-approach checks are independent of radio accuracy; an unsafe landing is not rescued by a correct call.
- End of this draft practice. Review current sources and applicable aircraft documents with a qualified instructor before operational use.
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