Originally Posted by
Ray Blaszak
I enjoy the Air Force especially when their nice enough to let me jump out of their perfectly ok airplane. But, Ill be driving around and just curious as to what they were actually doing. And what do you mean when you are referring to "overhead".
Military
Overhead Pattern. Instead of entering the pattern on downwind or 45-to-downwind like you would do in a 172, you enter the pattern lined up with and
overhead the arrival end of the runway at 1000-1500 agl (with the aircraft clean and at high speed), enter a hard left or right hand "break" turn onto downwind (while simultaneously slowing and configuring flaps/gear), and then a continuous base and base-to-final turn.