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I've landed in the opposite direction of another aircraft with no problem. Just make sure you are constantly communicating and you both know who is landing first.

Switching up the pattern seems a lot simpler than having a mid-air.

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Originally Posted by MarcoPolo (Post 1758550)

I've landed in the opposite direction of another aircraft with no problem. Just make sure you are constantly communicating and you both know who is landing first.

Trying to save a gallon or two of AVGAS and not taking the few extra minutes to enter the pattern the right way for the right runway is just begging for an incident. A few weeks ago I flew my own private plane down to St.Simons to attend the AOPA fly in. I was actually somewhat disappointed at how many pilots can't follow simple direction, can't fly there aircraft at slow speed, and seem to want to enter the pattern in any damn direction they pleased despite knowing there are a lot of airplanes in the sky. It's was akin to combat flying in the landing pattern.