I'm curious about how you instructors would go about teaching a circuit at an airfield with very strict noise-abatement procedures?
I think my instructor did a pretty good job of teaching me. Groundschool covered the theory which Tinstaafl has explained perfectly a couple of posts higher up. Then we looked at the published circuit for the runway in use on that day. Once we were flying, we compared the two: "We need to make sure we turn downwind inside the motorway because we don't want complaints from that village. But see how that puts the wingtip on the runway - right where we want it to be?" Or "We have to make sure that the base leg takes us outside the church - but see how the runway is more than 45 degrees behind us? So we're further out than we want to be in the ideal world - that means we'll need to be a little higher than normal when we turn final."
Any comments?
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