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These are uncontrolled airfields. It is mostly about how much traffic there is and pilot communication.
If I am flying into an airfield from the north onto a southerly runway and there is little or no traffic about will I add to my costs by needlessly flying into the overhead, do numerous 90 degree turns just to get back to a final position which I was almost on?
Will I communicate with the one other aircraft in the circuit and the FIS and state my intentions and position for a straight in?
If I am flying VFR and the cloudbase precludes an overhead join what will I do then??
Yes busy circuit fit in with the rest, special reasons for special patterns where those special reasons are active ( Skydropping etc) Then yes you dont want a parachutist through the wing.
But use your common sense and communicate communicate communicate!
There is not even anything wrong with a right or left based join or departure if your the only one in the sky or your in direct communication with the only other aircraft flying.
Pace
Last edited by Pace; 21st February 2013 at 10:38.