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Old 1st December 2005 | 13:34
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tonyhalsall
 
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And totally invisible to the bloke in the low-winged aircraft behind you.
Sans or avec Anoraque??

I think that the vast majority of experienced PPL's landing at a regular field with a published pattern would rather have standard overhead re-joins without ATC involvement and simply sort themselves out in the pattern as joining traffic call out positions bearing in mind that there may always be non radio traffic - of course.

From personal preference I would much rather gide in from the overhead in a big descending curved approach than get stuck in an ATC controlled circuit taking in half of the next County! Unfortunately, I think A/G & ATC tend to unintentionally create large unwieldy circuits.
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