Question from a new flight student (whopping 7 hours!)

Cub Driver wrote:

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 20:42:49 -0600, Newps wrote:


It is not uncommon for others to enter just like me except they will
then make a right turn(approax 45 degrees) and fly away from the pattern
on a southwesterly heading, into the face of other traffic entering on
the 45, fly out a couple miles and then do a 180 for the sole purpose of
entering the pattern on the 45. These people are nuts


Yes, they are. But so are you, declaring that "nope" it doesn't bother
you that you may create a hazard by flyiing at a non-standard altitude
in the pattern.

Oh please. There's 800 foot patterns, 1000 foot patterns and all
numbers in between so they can be a round number(My airport TPA is 851
feet). Now you fly to West Nowhere Muni where the nearest altimeter
setting is 100 miles away. Nobody is at the same altitude even if they
all agreed to the same pattern altitude. I work at a towered field and
see everyday that pattern altitudes vary. 800, 900, 1000, it's like
worrying if your tire has 30 or 31 psi.