If that is your attitude, maybe YOU need to adjust YOUR attitude!

If you called the 45, you were NOT in the traffic pattern! Did you pay
attention to the frequency? Did the formation call "initial"?

As I warned in my post, when you (that is, the original poster) start
to question the holy right of libertarian pilots to do what they
damned well please in the pattern, you are going to get some heated
replies.

My own policy is this: when there are idiots in the pattern, either
take your best shot to get on the ground safely, or go away and land
somewhere else. These people have closed minds, and they are flying
airplanes that can kill you.

My favorite example of this sort of booby was the *instructor* who had
his student fly *straight in* to a field where neither had landed
before, that was marked "heavy flight training," and that did its
training in NORDO aircraft -- and then bawled out the Cub driver on
base for not listening to the radio calls!

all the best -- Dan Ford
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