"Aviv Hod" wrote in message
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C Kingsbury wrote:
Try flying a tight pattern when you're #7 following a Learjet. At a very
busy field you often have no choice. Up here in Boston you'll often find
yourself on extended downwind for Rwy 29 at Bedford, which means you
need to
stay down low in order to remain under Logan's Class B. No big towers at
pattern altitude, though.


Colin,
Last week the manager of Hanscom Tower spoke at the Hanscom Aeroclub
safety meeting (and holiday party :-) He said that he cannot understand
why spamcan pilots insist on making huge patterns.

Yeah, a lot of guys fly B-17 patterns, but this situation also happens when
you're on downwind cleared to follow a bizjet that's coming down the ILS.
People also do it because the visibility out there often stinks and with 5-6
in the pattern including often one or more students nobody wants to cut it
too close. Very easy to get your sequence wrong out there.


away from Class B, or negotiating with Boston approach. If you bust
into Bravo airspace while in the Hanscom pattern, it's on Hanscom
Tower's head.

And I'll make you a great deal to buy the Bunker Hill bridge. One time I got
sent way out on extended downwind for 29 and I ended up departing the
pattern north and called back in. I could tell from their response that they
had completely forgotten about me.

-cwk.