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Nik wrote:
What would you do in the following situtation: You are approaching a non towered field, communicate right and all that stuff, your on final, suddenly a cessna pulls up and starts it's take off roll. Also lets bring the same situation to a towered airport where the controller tells you to go around while you are on final. I am asking this because I am just wondering that at some point the aircraft could collide (one climbing out, the other at pattern altitude), and what the pilot going around should do... This EXACT situation happened to me on about my second or third time of solo flying practice in the pattern. I had been flying a few circuits around the pattern, announcing my position the way I'd been taught. I was landing at a comfortable interval behind another aircraft, but as soon as the aircraft in front of me crossed the threshold, a departing plane pulled out in front of me to get in position for a takeoff roll. I kept the departing plane in sight, and announced "Cessna 123XY going around due to traffic on the runway". (I probably should have specified "departing traffic", because just after I made my announcement, the aircraft which had just landed and cleared the runway said "Bonanza 234ab is clear of the runway" -- he may have thought I was tailgating him). I heard another voice say "he pulled right out in front of you, didn't he?". I started climbing to pattern altitude and kept the departing plane in sight by a combination of moving to the right a bit and slipping. I got to pattern altitude about the time I was over the far end of the runway. About then, I decided it was silly to follow the runway centerline all the way to a normal crosswind, especially with the rogue aircraft climing on nearly the same trajectory, so I did a short crosswind while he was still well below me and I joined the normal base leg, announcing intentions the whole way. I never heard the departing aircraft say anything. I assume he had no radio or was too embarassed. I'm not sure that what I did was textbook perfect; I was improvising as a very green student. But the important thing was that I kept the departing aircraft in sight, I announced my intentions, I stayed in a fairly normal pattern watching for other traffic, I didn't make any assumptions that the departing aircraft had a radio or was going to follow any standard procedures, and I didn't let his mistake upset me too much. --Rich |
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