Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
You mean flight into class B for landing at BFI is not *normally*
required. In this particular case I maintain it was for safe
separation.

You can maintain that if you like, but that doesn't make it so. All it does
is cause others to question your knowledge and abilities.

Exactly. Antonio, dude... I got out the chart and drew a line parallel
to the runway and just touching the corner of the surface area of the
class bravo. It's well over a nautical mile from the runway
centerline. If you stay inside of a mile away from the runway and fly
the appropriate downwind heading, parallel to the runway and at pattern
altitude, you'll never touch the bravo. Pete has tried to say that
about a dozen times.

In my opinion (and I suspect most others), flying downwind over a mile
from the runway it too far out even if there isn't a potential class
bravo incursion/pilot deviation waiting for you just outside that
distance. My main reasoning is twofold: I'd like to be where others
might reasonably expect to find me, and I'd like to be sure I'm within
glide range of the runway in the event of an engine failure.

-R