what would you do?

So long as she landed on 14 she flew a left upwind to 14. Doesn't matter
what radio call she used. If she called a left downwind for 32 we all
should know where she is. The original poster was flying the wrong pattern
if he was right upwind for 14 when 14 is a left pattern.

"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
news:sXUBc.92880$Sw.18279@attbi_s51...
"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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First of all, what would you report her for? I am having difficulty
finding
an actual FAR violation here, though it appears that everyone, including
yourself, was flying some sort of non-standard pattern.

Flying a left pattern for a runway designated as right-traffic violates
91.126b or 91.127a.

--Gary

"lardsoup" wrote in message news:Iw1Cc.116832$Gx4.22254@bgtnsc

So long as she landed on 14 she flew a left upwind to 14. Doesn't matter
what radio call she used. If she called a left downwind for 32 we all
should know where she is. The original poster was flying the wrong
pattern
if he was right upwind for 14 when 14 is a left pattern.

I'd report her anyway. If she didn't do anything wrong, the FAA wouldn't
put anything on her (assuming for the sake of discussion a fair FAA.) But
the flak they give her might give her incentive to pay more attention to her
flying, which is in everybody's best interest.

-c

What would you report? That she made a mistake on her radio calls and
another pilot flying a non-standard pattern got freaked out?

"gatt" wrote in message
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"lardsoup" wrote in message
news:Iw1Cc.116832$Gx4.22254@bgtnsc

So long as she landed on 14 she flew a left upwind to 14. Doesn't
matter
what radio call she used. If she called a left downwind for 32 we all
should know where she is. The original poster was flying the wrong
pattern
if he was right upwind for 14 when 14 is a left pattern.

I'd report her anyway. If she didn't do anything wrong, the FAA wouldn't
put anything on her (assuming for the sake of discussion a fair FAA.)
But
the flak they give her might give her incentive to pay more attention to
her
flying, which is in everybody's best interest.

-c

"gatt" wrote
I'd report her anyway. If she didn't do anything wrong, the FAA wouldn't
put anything on her (assuming for the sake of discussion a fair FAA.)

Check this out before you spread any more fairy tales like the one
about the fair FAA:

http://www.avweb.com/pdf/brinell_report.pdf

Remember - with the FAA, there is no due process and no
accountability. Reporting someone to the FAA is NOT like reporting
someone to the police. It's much more like exercising vigilante
justice yourself.

Michael