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How to Make a Perfect Soft Field Landing Every Time

Pilot Institute

Check NOTAMs Before departure, check the Notices to Air Missions (NOTAM) publication. You might find a NOTAM about your destination’s surface conditions. Don’t depend on NOTAMs to provide up-to-date information on soft field conditions. When crossing the threshold, start reducing the power.

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Groundhog Day at Alton Bay

Photographic Logbook

A NOTAM closing Alton Bay was still active until 7:00 am that morning. As expected, the NOTAM closing the ice runway did expire and no new notification replaced it. Alton Bay's floating bandstand about 100 feet south of the runway threshold. "Wakey-Wakey, Eggs and Bakey" It almost did not happen. He certainly had a point.

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