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Mxsmanic wrote:
Steven P. McNicoll writes:

Just what does it mean for the pattern to be full? If the pattern is truly
full, what is an itinerant arrival supposed to do? Hold somewhere until
someone gets tired of doing touch and goes?

I'm still not sure that I see the advantage to patterns. It just seems like
it puts a lot of aircraft in close proximity to each other. And unless they
are all aircraft of identical type, "the" pattern will actually be several
patterns, some with slow, low aircraft, and others with higher, faster
aircraft. Unfortunately, all of these patterns may still be sharing a single
runway. It sounds like a recipe for accidents.


This is where ATC's job shines; Whereas you think they are only
there to serve pilots (from another forum, you say, "Remember, ATC is
at the service of pilots, not the other way around. In the U.S., the
pilot in command is the final authority, not ATC. That's why ATC refers
to pilots as "Sir."), you have no clue about what ATC does, nor how
they do it.

As I have mentioned, as well as people here (who are
controllers) have also mentioned, the main purpose for ATC is to
provide separation of traffic in his/her airspace. This is such a
situation. When you have a fair number of planes in the pattern for a
given field, ATC provides the separation for these planes, and keeps
the traffic running smoothly.

You would know that if you have read any documentation that
people here have told you to read. But I digress; you seem to think you
know it all, so we'll all just sit back and laugh at you while you
continue to make a complete idiot of yourself.

I'll remind myself to invoke the Dilbert Rule the next time you
start an argument (which shouldn't take long at all).

BL.
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