"Chris Nielsen" wrote in message
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Here's how we do it.... When we do an overhead join, we start 500 feet
above circuit altitude, and when ready, descend on the non-traffic side,
i.e. the upwind side - the other side of the circuit from downwind, then
when we're down to circuit altitude, we turn and fly the crosswind leg,
then, while looking for traffic we turn downwind and fly the rest
normally... I trust this doesn't come under the category of descending
on
you?

I've asked this before, but doesn't the dead side descending entry used in
UK (and, presumably from the above, New Zealand) mean that there is always
traffic noise on both sides of the runway? Many of the single runways in my
area have the pattern on one geographical side (e.g. LP 10, RP 28), thus
removing noise from, in this example, the south side. It also reduces the
fall-out-of-the-sky fear factor from people on the ground when there are
buildings on the unused side.

Or does the fact that the planes on the dead side are descending from
TPA+500 mean the noise is less intrusive?

-- David Brooks