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Old 12th Jun 2012, 15:02
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misd-agin
 
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CatpnBlogs - how about figuring a spot 2 or 3 miles on final and using that as a roll out point? Doesn't require rotating your head 90 degrees, and up, to look through a small window.

I've used that technique many times when the runway is on the 'wrong' side. Runway is X. Pick a spot 2-3x on final and base you turn off of that. Building, road, field, etc. Pick something, fly over it. Sporting when you're at 30 degrees of bank, 1000' FPM, and can't see the runway.

Did that years ago into XXX. A week later talking with the mechanic and he was talking about the crazy approach he'd seen. Crazy? 100% within SOP. After years of watching 10 mile straight-in's he wasn't prepared to see a fairly tight visual pattern.




Removing the eyebrow windows impact on the noise in the cockpit? It dropped from 'too loud' to 'still too loud'.

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