No more "Left Downwind"?
In article xrhKg.2053$8J2.265@fed1read11,
"BTIZ" wrote:
"john smith" wrote in message
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left is standard.. right traffic is on the chart with annotations for the
airport along with the airport elevation, lighting, runway length and
frequency.. as in
JEAN (0L7)
2832 *L 46 122.9
RP 2R 20R
or
Sky Ranch (3L2)
2599 - 33 123.0
RP 12
Interesting. I have never seen it.
Does that mean you never go into an airport with a designated right had
traffic pattern?
Or does that mean that you never look at your charts?
Anyone who has overflown Ohio knows that, with the exception of
southeast Ohio, you are rarely outside gliding distance of a suitable or
established landing area.
Ohio has several hundred public use and private airfields spread across
the Cincinnati and Detriot Sections.
Out of couriosity, I grabbed a chart. Looking at the Cincinnati
Sectional I found four in the southern half of Ohio. One local, the
other three 70-90 nm away. Three I knew had RP's and the fourth is a
grass stip down beside the Ohio River across from Huntington WV.
- Greater Portsmouth/KPMH has a tall hill on the west side.
- Middletown Hook/KMWO has no obstructions, they just want the traffic
over the river instead of over the town.
- Newlon/I41 has a couple tall towers on the other side of the river.
- Columbus Southwest/04I is adjacent to Darby Dan/6I6
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