Low Approach and Touch‐and‐Go

Consider an aircraft cleared for a touch‐and‐go, low approach, or practice approach as an arriving aircraft until that aircraft touches down or crosses the landing threshold; thereafter, consider the aircraft as a departing aircraft. Before the aircraft begins its final descent, issue the appropriate departure instructions the pilot is to follow upon completion of the approach (in accordance with paragraph 4-3-2, Departure Clearances). Climb‐out instructions must include a specific heading or a route of flight and altitude, except when the aircraft will maintain VFR and contact the tower.