ATC Questions

[DynamiteDrop03]

What Does Frequency Change And Remaining In The Pattern Mean?

[Clement_Boisselier]

Remaining in the pattern!

now that I finally have your attention, those who just bothered to check this after having me tell you a thousand times to ‘check help pages’ which has hopefully brought you here directly or not. NEVER EVER EVER SIMPLY SAY ‘remaining in the pattern’ when all you really want is to take off! Don’t be bloody lazy, and tell ATC which direction you are departing! If ATC says, ‘no pattern work’ use your bloody brain and think, what could that possibly mean? Don’t keep monkey fingering the same darn r…

[Chatta290]

Remaining in the pattern is when you want to stay in the pattern and want to land back at the airport you took off from, frequency change is when you want to change frequency

[Lindbergh]

https://community.infiniteflight.com/t/how-to-properly-change-frequency-when-an-active-controller-can-not-hand-you-off-to-another-controller/14313?u=carson&source_topic_id=14987

How to fly a (visual) pattern

A pattern can be flown in different ways. First of all, you will be cleared to fly a left or right hand pattern. This is straightforward: if you are cleared to make a left hand pattern all your turns will be to the left and if you are cleared to fly a right hand pattern all your turns will be to the right. To inform the tower that you want to remain in the pattern you will communicate when you request take off: “callsign XXX ready for take off runway XX, remaining in the pattern” What does a …

[CaptainDawud]

Hello!

These might be able to help you out ;)

https://community.infiniteflight.com/t/remaining-in-the-pattern-tutorial/42567?u=captaindawud

https://community.infiniteflight.com/t/how-to-properly-change-frequency-when-an-active-controller-can-not-hand-you-off-to-another-controller/14313?u=captaindawud

Thanks :)

[Narroc_Wim]

Frequency change is when you change from controller to controller and remaining in the pattern is when you stay around an airport to do touch and goes.

[DynamiteDrop03]

Thanks Guys!!