Opinions please, preferred pattern joining methods

"Roy Smith" wrote in message =
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"Bob Gardner" wrote:
Same thing applies at many controlled fields. Ask the controller for=20
permission to cross the airport and you will most likely be told to =
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midfield at 2500 feet or so...that's the way they do it at =
Seattle-Tacoma,=20
anyway. Hard to hit a jet when it has its wheels on the runway and =
you are=20
way up there.
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Yup, that's what they do around here. Ask to transition LaGuardia, =
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they'll have you fly directly over the tower at 1500 feet. I've had =
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do similar at Newark and Kennedy.
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At White Plains, they'll often give spam cans closed traffic on 29 =
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running jets on 34; they just ask you to keep your downwind in tight,=20
passing right over the numbers of 34.

Occasionally I fly IFR into Spirit of St. Louis Airport from the east,
and it's rare NOT to be vectored squarely across Lambert Field,
continuing outward south-westerly until getting further vectors to KSUS.
Once, in VMC, I was asked to cross "the building with the big blue =
roof"!