What's a landing?
Posted: Mon May 10, 2021 5:24 pm
This is a purely academic question - There is no need or reason to run up my landing numbers.
I wanted to land at a local grass field that is short, narrow and has very tall trees on one end of the runway.
I attempted to land 3 times but the wind at the approach end of the runway was very swirly (It does that often this time of year). I touched down all three times but either bounced, didn't like my alignment or thought I was too fast or some combination of these three each time and opted to go around. No big deal. Figuring that discretion was the better part of valor I went to a municipal airport 4 miles away for a bio break before returning to my home airport.
When I got home and was filling out my paper logbook and my Foreflight logbook, I was stumped as to whether or not to count the three bounce-and-goes as landings. I decided on just counting the 2 hard-surface full-stop landings.
What would you folks have done?
I wanted to land at a local grass field that is short, narrow and has very tall trees on one end of the runway.
I attempted to land 3 times but the wind at the approach end of the runway was very swirly (It does that often this time of year). I touched down all three times but either bounced, didn't like my alignment or thought I was too fast or some combination of these three each time and opted to go around. No big deal. Figuring that discretion was the better part of valor I went to a municipal airport 4 miles away for a bio break before returning to my home airport.
When I got home and was filling out my paper logbook and my Foreflight logbook, I was stumped as to whether or not to count the three bounce-and-goes as landings. I decided on just counting the 2 hard-surface full-stop landings.
What would you folks have done?