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Why not try slow flight? Isnt that why it is in the private pilot syllabus?
That way you could have stayed closer to the runway.

Bob Gardner

"Greg B" wrote in message
news:QobK8.176446$Q42.7932039@typhoon.austin.rr.com...
> It has been a month since I bought my plane and flew it from Iowa to Texas
> in about 16.5 hours of flight time over 3 days. Since I got the plane down
> here, I hadnt flown it for various reasons/excuses like heat/wind, plane
in
> avionics shop and the like. I told myself all week that I would fly this
> Saturday morning unless the weather was bad. This mornings weather was
> great! Little wind and not as hot as it has been. I taxied to the active
and
> held short for landing traffic, did a position & hold once a Cessna landed
> and followed it after takeoff. The Cessna was doing pattern work like I
was,
> but I was catching up to him. I wasnt any where near gross weight with
only
> myself in there and I was climbing about 800-1000ft.min, which was a lot
> better than the ~500ft/min I was getting about a month ago with more
weight
> and higher temperatures. The Cessna was making a real wide pattern and I
> could have cut him off and passed him on downwind, but I called the tower
> and asked if I could do a right-360 for spacing which they agreed. Even
> after the 360, I was still catching up with him after a couple more T&Gs.
I
> had to do another 360 for more spacing for another arrival and a go around
> for a plane that hadnt cleared the runway by the time I was landing. My
> landings were pretty good for not having flown for a month.
>
> The only problem with todays flight was the other plane that made wide
> patterns. I usually keep within a half mile or so when on downwind in case
> the fan should quit. I would be able to make it back to the runway without
> power from any place in the pattern after I turn for downwind and could
> probably make the runway in an emergency from the crosswind leg. The other
> plane was at least a mile out on downwind and extended it at least a mile
> past the numbers. Why do these people fly such wide patterns?
>
> Greg Burkhart
> N93332
>
>

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