Thread: Pattern entry
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Old 02-07-2011, 05:23 PM
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clipperskipper
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I fly out of an uncontrolled airpark where everyone is pretty good about reporting their 45
to the downwind, or crosswind to the downwind, as the case may be. As a resident I try to set an example by making proper pattern entries, and reporting my position on each leg in the pattern, and teach others to do the same.

Last night I just finished securing my bug-smasher when I heard and saw an aircraft in a right hand pattern for the northeast runway. A minute later, a Vans came screaming in with a 10 knot tailwind, touching down midfield, made a 180, then let someone off with the propeller still spinning. He then made another 180 and took off southwest, brand new paint, no tail numbers, no callouts on the CTAF. Not what you want to see.
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