Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
So how often have you (Godot64) encountered aircraft doing a circuit at 1,500'?
How do you manage to descend 1,000' between the point overhead and joining mid field crosswind or downwind, and remain within cooee of the runway? Speedbrakes?
I've not often encountered aircraft at 1500' in the circuit, but often enough for proof of concept. And descent dead side before the turn onto crosswind has rarely proven to be a challenge in the distinctly unslippery aircraft I mostly fly!
I don't slavishly follow the 2000' overfly, but was responding to the OP who said he'd never heard of anyone doing it. I do, and quite often, because it works for me. YMMV.