CJ12
December 30, 2015, 12:33am
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These should help to explain traffic patterns:
Hello all!
I commonly see many pilots, And Air Traffic Controllers becoming confused when confronted by a Standard Traffic Pattern! So I made a tutorial on what it’s all about!
Things things first!
A Traffic Pattern or Circuit is a set path that an aircraft follows while maintaining visual contact with the runway.
The point of this is to keep a nice flow of organized Air Traffic that ATC can manage effectively.
Aircraft can enter the pattern straight after takeoff(“remaining in the 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 …
Traffic patterns is an important thing to know. You should be able to fly a traffic pattern well before flying on the advanced server. (It’s not too hard as long as you know your lefts and rights) try and visualise the pattern your flying in when on IF, this will help
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