Matt Whiting wrote:
EridanMan wrote:

How is this turn any different (at all) then a tight traffic pattern?

Based on what I've seen, that's how it should be handled. Flaps down,
Approach speed, stabalize... determine the winds, and make a nice
crisp, 20 degree-of-bank turn into them.


20 deg is way too shallow a bank angle unless you are flying in IMC. :-)

Yep. That's why most patterns are so darn big!

Sure would prefer to be maneuvering a Maule in there rather than a
Cirrus... let's see, a Cirrus to get there and a Maule to sight see from
= RV-10