Pace
I thought that this had been flogged to death by now!
I do not quite understand your exclamation, emphasising Wombat's point...
But that is the key permitted by Air Traffic CONTROL
when you are arguing for variable circuit directions
where there is no ATC.
Where is a regulation which says you must comply with a circuit procedure OCAS ?
Does this help? UK Rule 12 (which is a regulation) and which does not specify that it applies only to inbound aircraft. And after all, it's only common sense ... isn't it?
Flight in the vicinity of an aerodrome
12 (1) Subject to paragraph (2), a flying machine, glider or airship flying in the vicinity of what the commander of the aircraft knows, or ought reasonably to know, to be an aerodrome shall:
(a) conform to the pattern of traffic formed by other aircraft intending to land at that aerodrome or keep clear of the airspace in which the pattern is formed; and
(b) make all turns to the left unless ground signals otherwise indicate.
(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply if the air traffic control unit at that aerodrome otherwise authorises.
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