Tight patterns?

"Bob Martin" wrote in message
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| Anyone else here like to fly a tight (or tighter than normal) pattern?
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| The field we're based at (Falcon Field, FFC) has a pretty good-sized
| training operation, and there are a lot of students out practicing
| landings, especially on good days. What annoys me, though, is that
| some of these students fly huge patterns--like 2-mile finals,
| downwinds 1-2 miles out from the runway, etc.

All of us at PAVCO constantly rail against students that fly bomber
patterns. None of MY students would ever do such a thing. It must be all
those other instructors' students. :-)

Our pattern at TIW is wider than I would like because of a local noise
abatement procedure -- the tower wants to keep downwind traffic out over
Wollochet Bay, which means you are more than a mile from the field. If it is
a north pattern, they don't want you to turn to crosswind until you are at
1000 feet or over the golf course, which is almost two miles out. Even so,
this pattern does not seem to be nearly big enough for a lot of people.