Larry Dighera wrote:

On 8 Nov 2006 09:18:02 -0600, T o d d P a t t i s t
wrote in
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They'd have been able to make the turn
even more easily if they'd moved to the other side and
turned into the wind.

Too true. Which leads to the conclusion that they weren't aware of
the crosswind component, hadn't been briefed on the wind, or ...

Or the traffic pattern definition does not allow for wind direction. Even a
high time pilot would be prone to "fly the pattern" rather than deviate
from a published route.

It seems this route was known to be a bit of a "challenge". It's probably
too late, but in the future I wonder if it wouldn't make sense to allow the
direction of turns along the route to be based on wind direction.

--
Frank....H