"karl" wrote in message ...

*****This is not correct. The safest traffic pattern entry is the one that
is
flown correctly and consistently by everyone.*******

Didn't your mama ever say "If everybody jumped off the bridge, would you do so too?"

Just because everybody else is doing it, doesn't make it safe. The fact that they are
too lame to turn the pattern around to land upwind, or they patterns wide enough for
a 747 isn't compelling reason to follow along.