Sunsnapper,
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The trouble is that if it isn't law, three things will happen.
1) You will never know what the guy in front of you in the circuit is going to do.
2) There will be more accidents caused by people emulating James Bond on takeoff.
Think Compressor and Angels have you there. Too much regulation is crap! Pilots are trained to and have a responsibility to THINK and apply SOUND JUDGEMENT. There are many airports/situations/conditions where you WILL endanger yourself and the aircraft by complying with a min. 500ft turn after take-off. As Glekichi said it is not a law in NZ and we don't seem to have had your doomsday predictions dogging aviation over here!
Was this one old Dick's ideas? He made a nice impact with the turf at Harihari the other day-there were even reports of a small earthquake along most of the West Coast!
