Truly here. It's just habit probably because I am a glider pilot. Fact
is, when there's traffic, I follow it and otherwise conform. But most
of my landings (e.g. home 'port) are without such traffic.

I generally just can't bring myself to consciously fly out of range
after I'm in range of a safe surface. When the wind is up, I probably
slip out of range anyway.

YMMV. I fly a simple a/c with simple needs.

Larry Dighera wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:41:39 GMT, "Neil Gould"
wrote in
::


As I was taught, the point of flying safely is to always have a viable
option. So, I fly tight patterns and make power-off landings as a rule. If
I make it to the pattern, I can make it to a runway, engine or no.


Truly? So when you're #5 in the pattern (which necessitates a
looooong, extended downwind leg) you just fly the pattern at 2,000'
then?