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Old 20th Mar 2024, 12:56
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Originally Posted by Check Airman
If you’re flying a Boeing or Airbus, you’re not going to an airport where you’ll be told to enter the pattern, so we can ignore that part.
What FAA reference is there to exclude Boeing and Airbus pilots from the regs? Seems pretty clear to me - in the absence of instructions, joining the circuit is the standard for visual missed approaches. What would you do at a no-tower airport? (Most of my flying in Australia in airliners was to no-tower airports) - you'd join the circuit and execute a second visual approach.
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