You should only fly a right traffic patter when it's published that way. If your doing a right traffic while everyone else is doing a left it can become very dangerous very fast
@Scote1992 You are right and I didn't realize that at the time while making this video. But if you announce to the traffic exactly where you are (i.e. entering right base for RWY blah blah), I don't see anything wrong with making a right traffic pattern. But I also understand that if you want to err on the side of caution, screw it, just overfly the airport and enter a regular left traffic pattern.
@Scote1992 You are right and I didn't realize that at the time while making this video. But if you announce to the traffic exactly where you are (i.e. entering right base for RWY blah blah), I don't see anything wrong with making a right traffic pattern. But I also understand that if you want to err on the side of caution, screw it, just overfly the airport and enter a regular left traffic pattern.
perhaps i'm just confused because it was more of a straight in approach and you didn't enter the pattern on the downwind leg, so your turn to intercept the runway was a right turn. would the portion of flight prior to final approach still be called a base leg then, since it's not flown totally perpendicular to the runway? i always thought the base leg would refer specifically to the second to last part of a standard traffic pattern, but like i said, i don't have much experience, lol.
i have little experience, but this part confused me. aren't turns from base leg to final supposed to be left turns? shouldn't the base leg have been flown in the opposite direction, coming from the other side of the runway? great videos though.
The base leg is the leg that is perpendicular to final, yes. It does not have to be a left turn though. I believe if you just say "turning base" without a direction, a left base is the default. In the video, I should have been more specific when describing where I was and said "Turning right base." or something along those lines. I know more now than I did at the time of making the video lol.
@Xiupan thanks, man! so would a right base leg only occur on a short/semi-direct approach like that, or are there situations where a traffic pattern is flown with right turns?
It depends on what direction you are approaching the airport. Say there is a RWY 28/10. You are inbound from the north and local weather tells you the winds are coming from the west, so you want to use RWY 28. Well, instead of crossing over the airport first, why not just enter a right traffic pattern? So you would actually make a left turn first entering a right downwind leg, then a right base turn, then final for RWY 28. It's hard to visualize it from text though.
You should only fly a right traffic patter when it's published that way. If your doing a right traffic while everyone else is doing a left it can become very dangerous very fast
Scote1992 5 months ago
@Scote1992 You are right and I didn't realize that at the time while making this video. But if you announce to the traffic exactly where you are (i.e. entering right base for RWY blah blah), I don't see anything wrong with making a right traffic pattern. But I also understand that if you want to err on the side of caution, screw it, just overfly the airport and enter a regular left traffic pattern.
Xiupan 5 months ago
@Scote1992 You are right and I didn't realize that at the time while making this video. But if you announce to the traffic exactly where you are (i.e. entering right base for RWY blah blah), I don't see anything wrong with making a right traffic pattern. But I also understand that if you want to err on the side of caution, screw it, just overfly the airport and enter a regular left traffic pattern.
Xiupan 5 months ago
perhaps i'm just confused because it was more of a straight in approach and you didn't enter the pattern on the downwind leg, so your turn to intercept the runway was a right turn. would the portion of flight prior to final approach still be called a base leg then, since it's not flown totally perpendicular to the runway? i always thought the base leg would refer specifically to the second to last part of a standard traffic pattern, but like i said, i don't have much experience, lol.
Markduderino 7 months ago
i have little experience, but this part confused me. aren't turns from base leg to final supposed to be left turns? shouldn't the base leg have been flown in the opposite direction, coming from the other side of the runway? great videos though.
Markduderino 7 months ago
@Markduderino
The base leg is the leg that is perpendicular to final, yes. It does not have to be a left turn though. I believe if you just say "turning base" without a direction, a left base is the default. In the video, I should have been more specific when describing where I was and said "Turning right base." or something along those lines. I know more now than I did at the time of making the video lol.
Xiupan 7 months ago
@Xiupan thanks, man! so would a right base leg only occur on a short/semi-direct approach like that, or are there situations where a traffic pattern is flown with right turns?
Markduderino 7 months ago
@Markduderino
It depends on what direction you are approaching the airport. Say there is a RWY 28/10. You are inbound from the north and local weather tells you the winds are coming from the west, so you want to use RWY 28. Well, instead of crossing over the airport first, why not just enter a right traffic pattern? So you would actually make a left turn first entering a right downwind leg, then a right base turn, then final for RWY 28. It's hard to visualize it from text though.
Xiupan 7 months ago
@Xiupan cool, thanks for the info. i had never realized that.
Markduderino 7 months ago