"Joe Johnson" wrote in message
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"Newps" wrote in message
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"Joe Johnson" wrote in message
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If I had it to do again, I would have left the pattern and
headed outbound heading somewhere between 160 (my departure heading)
and
110
(the other pilot's) until we had positive visual identification.

This would only make it worse.

How so? I was proposing to follow a non-crossing trajectory.

It's a busy place. It makes no sense to leave the pattern and get in more
peoples way. It is easy for a departing aircraft to miss another that he
can plainly see.