Originally Posted by tmmorris
The airfield has a FISO
What was he doing then? Did he not look out of his window and give you and the other geezer traffic info? Or was he like one of our A/G Operators who hasn't the remotest idea where the traffic is and isn't manning the radio most of the time anyway?
TMM, I'm also intrigued by your account of encountering someone joining crosswind just as you reached circuit height on climbout. I think you said he was at the correct position for joining crosswind. If that's the case then you must have been flying a very high performance aircraft and there must have been a stiff headwind, because reaching 1000ft over the upwind numbers is pretty damned hard! Either he was very wide - i.e. joining way upwind of the runway - or you had not taken account of the relationship between your climb performance and the joining traffic. Brings us back to the FISO - "TMM take off at your discretion, surface wind blah di blah, traffic information there's a XXXX shortly joining crosswind."
NS