Two plane collision near San Diego

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09-12-2015, 11:03 AM

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runwayna

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No good.... Even with your head on a swivel flying in highly congested areas is always higher risk in my opinion.

09-12-2015, 05:17 PM

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PurpleToolBox

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Originally Posted by cardiomd

Probably obvious, but one thing I've noticed at fields like this is in standard pattern, when tower instructs or somebody calls base, and you're on downwind, look to the left AND to the right to find that traffic on base. Some people make ridiculously huge patterns and will be on a 3 mile left base when "closed circuit."

Worse is when people do this at uncontrolled fields, and since "base" beats "downwind" every time you often have to do weird things to sequence properly and that adds to risk.

My aircraft manual says 2 - 2 1/2 miles for downwind/final. It seems the faster you go, the bigger the turn radius. Who knew?

09-12-2015, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by PurpleToolBox

My aircraft manual says 2 - 2 1/2 miles for downwind/final. It seems the faster you go, the bigger the turn radius. Who knew?

Mine says the same thing and I'm doing 160kts on downwind. But, I try not to go in to small airports.

09-14-2015, 07:16 PM

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Mine says the same thing and I'm doing 160kts on downwind. But, I try not to go in to small airports.

Yes. Less of an issue in a Charlie where I'm based or delta where sequencing provided. Obviously in GA uncontrolled fields if you're doing a 3 mile final it would be best practice to call 3 mile final for awareness of everybody, not just "turning base to final" or something like that. GA pilots would NOT be looking for you where you are and are very likely to cut in front of you. Somebody calling Skyhawk **** should not make 3 mile final IMO.