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![]() Here at Spruce Creek, we do initial at or below pattern altitude and perform either a level turn break or a "popup" break, to shed speed, followed by a tight pattern. Again, if it's local custom, most anything would suffice. Pity there wasn't a place in the AOPA airport handbook to indicate these local quirks. My home field has a nuclear plant a few miles to the south, and the local rule since 9/11 is never to point your plane in its direction. The ocean is a couple miles east, so most traffic is coming from the west. When we must land to the north, therefore, most of us get on the 45 from the west, then cross over at mid-field or at the south end, making a left turn onto downwind (no doubt to the joy of those who believe that right turns onto downwind are "illegal"). I suppose every airfield has these local quirks. We have a "calm wind runway" also, and so do other fields I've landed at. One even uses the favored runway up to a 5 knot tailwind. all the best -- Dan Ford email: see the Warbird's Forum at www.warbirdforum.com and the Piper Cub Forum at www.pipercubforum.com |
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