You can set up some iffy visibility and practice landings at almost any airport.
It has been used at various times for practice amphibious landings by the U.S. Navy.
We'd done touch-and-go practice landings on the grass strip there, but we'd never stopped.
Few of the pilots had made more than three or four practice landings and these had all been in daylight.
I see it like those practice landings at the airport where they put their wheels on the ground and then take straight off again.
Later, it was used for practice landings by the Air Force.
We reconvened after lunch at a mockup of a plane door and wing and a platform for practice landings.
Training typically included an hour of dragging this chute around the landing pattern for multiple practice landings.
So she had lain through many practice landings.
After arriving on 12 April a number of basic practice landings were undertaken.