3 degrees at 1.5 miles - so you're sitting there in your Cherrytree at 450 feet QFe 1.5 miles out. If TW is correct, and this isn't a wind-up, then you are a menace to other in the circuit and everyone living on the (very) extended centerline of any field you visit.
Carrier pilots *know* how to fly. You, apparently, don't. Was it Pickfords you were with?
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