wrote:
Newps,

That you regard it as baloney does not change the FAA.
It also does not change how your enforcement case will come out.

There will be no enforcement case because you've got one guy over there
that doesn't know what's going on. We have pilot meetings with FSDO all
the time around here and traffic patterns are always a hot topic, as I
expect they are everywhere. There are no frowned upon traffic pattern
entries, as long as you make your turns in the proper direction, if you
make turns at all. And we have great FSDO guys here too. They teach
that the proper turn is only necessary for arrivals as per the FAR's. I
have flown with several of our inspectors on various flights like PACE.
To even suggest that entering on the crosswind at midfield at pattern
altitude would be a bustable offense is laughable. It's just as silly
as expecting somebody to fly away from the airport a couple of miles
just so they can reenter the pattern on a 45 to the downwind.