Monday, December 7, 2009

[Titanaircraft] Re: Any Tornado S or SS for sale in US or Canada

--- In Titanaircraft@yahoogroups.com, "Terry Savage" <chaosrider@...> wrote:
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> I have NEVER heard anything about getting to pattern altitude before turning
> crosswind.
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> Never in my training, never at a biennial.
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> At the vast majority of airports I've flown to (not the real tiny ones, or
> the dry lakebed), the airport diagram that's usually available tells you
> WHERE, not at what altitude, to turn crosswind. All safety permitting, of
> course. Frequently, but not always, it's for noise abatement reasons.
>

If it's not specified for your airport or by NOTAM or something like that, it's pilot's discretion. At towered airports like mine sometimes the controller will tell you he needs an early turnout or to fly runway heading for X miles or something like that to maintain separation from other planes, but otherwise it's up to you where or how high to turn.

If I'm doing pattern work I do whatever needs to be done to maintain sequencing with the other planes. When we have students flying wide patterns I've flown out as far as a mile to follow the other traffic. Already at TPA and settled into cruise and still on upwind ;)

LS

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