One of the rungs on the ladder student pilots must climb is the touch-and-go. It naturally follows learning about stalls, flying a traffic pattern, and takeoffs and landings individually, and has become a time-honored way for pilots of all skill levels to practice using a runway. Interestingly, the FAA's flight training literature offers little guidance on touch-and-goes beyond a definition in the Pilot/ Controller Glossary (PCG) and that section of the Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM). Both define a touch-and-go as an "operation by an aircraft that lands and departs on a runway without stopping or exiting the runway."
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