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Old 7th Nov 2004, 08:56
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While you're at it, BEagle, could we try and get rid of:

"G-CD Seaton runway 23 left hand, QFE 1021."?

We seem to be the only country that throws arbitrary left hands and right hands into phraseology to indicate circuit direction like like. There's a potential confusion, particularly for foreign pilots with "runway 23 left".

I've witnessed a foreign pilot at Cambridge line up on 23 grass (obviously "23 left", even though local convention is to call it "23 grass") after being instructed that departure would be "runway 23, left hand".

I can just about live with "runway 23, left hand circuits", but I'd much prefer something like "runway 23, circuit direction left".
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