Opinions please, preferred pattern joining methods

"Bob Gardner" wrote:
Same thing applies at many controlled fields. Ask the controller for
permission to cross the airport and you will most likely be told to cross
midfield at 2500 feet or so...that's the way they do it at Seattle-Tacoma,
anyway. Hard to hit a jet when it has its wheels on the runway and you are
way up there.

Yup, that's what they do around here. Ask to transition LaGuardia, and
they'll have you fly directly over the tower at 1500 feet. I've had them
do similar at Newark and Kennedy.

At White Plains, they'll often give spam cans closed traffic on 29 while
running jets on 34; they just ask you to keep your downwind in tight,
passing right over the numbers of 34.