rights of way within the circuit
Recently, another instructor asked me what was the right thing to tell his pupil who had asked him "who must give way to who within the circuit?" referring to if another aircraft was joining downwind as he was climbing out on crosswind leg and climbing to circuit height.
The instructor pointed out that although we have the "on the right, in the right rule", there is also the "aircraft flying in the vicinity of an aerodrome shall conform to the pattern of trafffic formed by other aircraft indending to land at that aerodrome" rule. So does an aircraft doing circuits that has only just climbed out from take off count as an aircraft intending to land at that aerodrome, and so who has right of way etc.
Similarly, if an another aircraft was to try to join base leg, whilst the student or any pilot for that matter was downwind/late downwind, what would the rights of way be?
Hope somebody can help