Dan Girellini wrote :

"Denny" writes:
Did you know that choppers are required to fly the pattern at the
airport in the opposite direction of the fixed wing traffic, i.e.
going directly at them on base leg? (nope, etc.)

I don't think this is true. It is the case at my home base
(Princeton, NJ) and maybe at yours too, but how could the FARs require
this? It would generally defeat the purpose of any airpot having a
right pattern for a given runway if that just meant rotorcraft were
going to fly on the other side.

Oh! Denny is just making-up regulations again. :-) I thought that
he stopped making them up about a year ago, but he is back at it again.

Here is the regulation that he thinks that he remembers.

Section 91.126: Operating on or in the vicinity of an airport in Class G
airspace

(2) Each pilot of a helicopter or a powered parachute must avoid the flow
of fixed-wing aircraft.

An FAA Advisory Circular on the subject states that helicopter pilots
*MAY* fly right-hand patterns if local rules permit.

Bob Moore