"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:

The regulation does not require turns "in the pattern" to be to the left, it
requires the pilot of an airplane approaching to land at an airport without
an operating control tower to make all turns to the left.

The "approach to landing" IS the pattern.

George Patterson
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