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Subject:Re: Flew again...
From:Robert Moore
Date:Sat Jun 01 14:23:33 2002
"Greg B" wrote
> 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?

The FAA "Flight Training Handbook" recommends a downwind
leg at one half to one mile from the runway. It the past,
it was AC 61-21A, but I think that it has a different
numbering system now.

Bob Moore
ATP ASMEL
CFI ASE-IA


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