EdFred
Taxi to Parking
After reading Toby's instructor's (can you use consecutive possessives and have it be proper english?) scenario, and a couple of others I got to thinking: What would be the best place to put down so as to close as little at the airport as possible. I don't have complex yet, but there will come a day when I do. I'm thinking about the airport that I would land and instead of my home field.
KGRR - http://www.naco.faa.gov/content/naco/online/airportdiagrams/05184AD.PDF
I know it's better to do a gear up landing on concrete, and at this field I'll get put down on 26R/8L so as to keep the big runways open. But lets say 26R/8L doesn't exist or is torn up for resurfacing or what about at a field such as KCRW:
http://www.naco.faa.gov/content/naco/online/airportdiagrams/00852AD.PDF
Now there isn't secondary runway for prevailing winds and you're going to shut down the airport if you put it down on the main runway. Would you request a taxiway gear up landing? I know that in an emergency I get priority, but sliding it is sliding it. Most/all taxiways at the C fields are wider than the 2 runways I learned to fly at. I would think that a landing on taxiway A or C at CRW or A, F, J at GRR would be something I might request just to cause as little inconvenience as possible for the rest of the traffic coming in or out of the place.
What are your thoughts on "being nice" in a situation like that and asking for a taxiway landing in a small GA plane?
KGRR - http://www.naco.faa.gov/content/naco/online/airportdiagrams/05184AD.PDF
I know it's better to do a gear up landing on concrete, and at this field I'll get put down on 26R/8L so as to keep the big runways open. But lets say 26R/8L doesn't exist or is torn up for resurfacing or what about at a field such as KCRW:
http://www.naco.faa.gov/content/naco/online/airportdiagrams/00852AD.PDF
Now there isn't secondary runway for prevailing winds and you're going to shut down the airport if you put it down on the main runway. Would you request a taxiway gear up landing? I know that in an emergency I get priority, but sliding it is sliding it. Most/all taxiways at the C fields are wider than the 2 runways I learned to fly at. I would think that a landing on taxiway A or C at CRW or A, F, J at GRR would be something I might request just to cause as little inconvenience as possible for the rest of the traffic coming in or out of the place.
What are your thoughts on "being nice" in a situation like that and asking for a taxiway landing in a small GA plane?