"Wade Hasbrouck" wrote in message
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If you are overtaking planes, you obviously should have waited longer
before making your downwind to base turn... The general rule I was taught
for the 172 is, provided you haven't "creeped in on your downwind", once
the landing traffic passes your wing tip, you can begin your turn to final
and it works out just about right... some times I will wait just a little
bit longer just to give a little extra space.


One SMALL Correction that I just noticed.... ARRGGHHH my fingers don't
always type what I want, as I am "editor type" when it comes to e-mail and
news postings (i.e. will write something, not like the wording or someting
and edit/wirte it differently...) :-)

The "general rule" sentence in the paragraph above should be:

"The general rule I was taught for the 172 is, provided you haven't 'creeped
in on your downwind', once the landing traffice passes your wing tip, you
can begin your turn to BASE, and it works out just about right..."

Kind of hard to see landing traffic pass your wingtip while ON base, and if
you did, that would probably be a big indication that you just overshot your
turn to final... :-)

Sorry about the typo... :-)