Let’s say you are on expert and you plan to flight circuits. You are first in line, and you request takeoff to remain in the pattern. ATC then says you are cleared for takeoff but they are “unable pattern work”. What do you do in that situation? You can’t turn around, because there’s no room to. You can’t just do it anyway, or you’ll get your ass ghosted to next Saturday. You can’t sit there and file a flightplan, because if you do, you’ll be holding back a line. Really, the only solution I see is to leave.
“Straight Out departure.”. You depart straight out of the runway heading.
If I were in this situation, I would just takeoff and then land at a nearby airport.
The controller is simply telling you that it is to busy to do circuits and patterns. Takeoff with a straight-out departure (RWY heading until out of the airport’s airspace) then continue to your destination.
If it’s not mentioned in ATIS, and you end up in this situation, you depart straight out of the airspace. Then you land somewhere else, or leave once you are in uncontrolled airspace.
I’ll be honest, it should be on the ATIS, it’s a requirement for us
Straight out departures on the ATIS is used to ease your app/dep controllers load so planes won’t crash into each other on a parallel departure. No pattern work is a separate button
This has happened to me once. I requested pattern work and was told unable pattern work. I took off, straight out, left the airspace and returned to the airspace 10min later for a full stop landing. The controller was not that busy when i left but there were quite a few inbound aircraft at the time i took off. I did not get ghosted.
Unable Pattern Work =Leave the airspace, go to another airport, and do patterns where you will not be interfering with ATC operations due to work load or poor weather.