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Yesterday, while practicing engine failure's at a nearby uncontrolled field, I landed late, and decided to go around right after the wheels touched down. As I climbed out I barely cleared a truck passing on a road in front of the runway and had to pull the airplane up into a zoom climb to avoid some greenhouses.
-The runway was short, and even shorter than I thought it was. I knew that it had a displaced threshold, but I didn't realize that it was only 2100 feet from that displaced threshold to the end of the runway. This was stupid. Despite having landed at that airport before I should have briefed what I was doing before hand, and known that I was dealing with a place where landing long should inspire a go around 200 feet AGL, not 0.
-I retracted the flaps to 0 degrees upon touching and right after applying full power. I should have retracted to 20 as the C172 book calls for, and then put them up to 10 as soon as reaching 55 kts.
-I pointed the plane right at the truck and at the greenhouses until I got some speed to manage a zoom climb above the obstacles. This was dangerous, but better than mushing into the truck by attempting to climb too early. This was probably the only good thing about this whole incident.
-Flying close to the ground is very scary, I'm happy I didn't stall the plane, or attempt to fly away with too little speed. But unhappy that I a)landed long b) didn't follow correct procedure for go around c) was unaware of the shortness of the runway with the displaced threshold.
-I was tired yesterday, the chain of problems began with my decision to even go out to the airport, and continued onto a poorly planned approach.
Live and learn another day. I was lucky yesterday.
-The runway was short, and even shorter than I thought it was. I knew that it had a displaced threshold, but I didn't realize that it was only 2100 feet from that displaced threshold to the end of the runway. This was stupid. Despite having landed at that airport before I should have briefed what I was doing before hand, and known that I was dealing with a place where landing long should inspire a go around 200 feet AGL, not 0.
-I retracted the flaps to 0 degrees upon touching and right after applying full power. I should have retracted to 20 as the C172 book calls for, and then put them up to 10 as soon as reaching 55 kts.
-I pointed the plane right at the truck and at the greenhouses until I got some speed to manage a zoom climb above the obstacles. This was dangerous, but better than mushing into the truck by attempting to climb too early. This was probably the only good thing about this whole incident.
-Flying close to the ground is very scary, I'm happy I didn't stall the plane, or attempt to fly away with too little speed. But unhappy that I a)landed long b) didn't follow correct procedure for go around c) was unaware of the shortness of the runway with the displaced threshold.
-I was tired yesterday, the chain of problems began with my decision to even go out to the airport, and continued onto a poorly planned approach.
Live and learn another day. I was lucky yesterday.