rushed approach
Dave Reid. I am sorry that you can change the vertical scale – with my little ruler I had satisfied myself that the aircraft had pretty well settled at the SOP circuit height of 1200 ft QFE (1525 ft QNH) on the deadside. Now I do not know !
To say the least, this was an untidy circuit.
Heli-phile. I would not have thought the circuit was too tight. Dave may give us the real detail, but we might judge that the aircraft was perhaps twice as fast on the deadside of the airfield as on its final approach. In other words the pilot seems to have given himself a reasonably gentle finals turn. Knowing that the railway on his right is the airspace boundary between Blackbushe and Farnborough, the pilot is nicely positioned downwind so he can see it.