The original poster had a fair question. He was truly puzzled why someone would encourage something that even his level of piloting skills and knowledge indicated were WRONG>
I'm not concerned about anything Sevenstrokeroll wrote concerning stevelup but what angers me is for him to comment about
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even his level of piloting skills
The term "what the F***" springs to mind here.
How do you know what "my level of piloting skills are"? For all you know, I could be a highly experienced german pilot - after all, I live in germany - who has NEVER flown outside of Germany but whose skills possibly approach those of you, our illustrious SevenStrokeRoll.
If you look at my original and follow up posts, at no time did I say "I'm a newbie, I have no idea", instead I indicated that I had carried out a CHECK FLIGHT to allow me to charter planes from an airfield outside my local field. The fact that it was my first experience flying in the UK made me ask a question about the joining technique, after all, each country can have slightly different variations from the same theme yet from this question you discern that my skills are limited is, to say the least, damn patronising.
Probably the most useful comment came from Choxolate - I will ask the instructor when I see him next - probably next weekend, I hope, if the weather is good. He was unfortunately in a rush to get away, which might have explained his eagerness to get back on the ground asap and going for right downwind rather than left but I still think joining on the right when the circuit is announced as left hand is breaking some rule or other and downright dangerous.
Thanks for the comments guys, I appreciate it.....