Traffic Pattern
Challenges encountered when flying the traffic pattern are the same for both the tricycle- and tail wheel-equipped airplanes. Three key points can be identified as causes of landing problems for students and high-time pilots alike.
Traffic patterns can be defined as left-hand or right-hand, according to which way the turns in the pattern lie.
Traffic pattern - 14 CFR 1.1
Traffic pattern means the traffic flow that is prescribed for aircraft landing at, taxiing on, or taking off from, an airport.
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traffic pattern - The traffic flow that is prescribed for aircraft landing at, taxiing on, or taking off from an airport. The components of a typical traffic pattern are upwind leg, crosswind leg, downwind leg, base leg, and final approach.
TRAFFIC PATTERN A standard rectangular flight pattern around the landing runway at an airport. Includes 45-degree or crosswind entry to the rectangle, with downwind, base and final legs as sides of the rectangle.
Traffic pattern - The traffic flow for aircraft landing and departure at an airport. Typical components of the traffic pattern include: upwind leg, crosswind leg, downwind leg, base leg, and final approach.
Traffic Pattern (circuit)
Normal climb airspeed (67-70 KIAS) should be maintained as should full power.
(See TRAFFIC PATTERN.)
URGENCY- A condition of being concerned about safety and of requiring timely but not immediate assistance; a potential distress condition.
(See ICAO term URGENCY.) ...
When approaching an airport with a left-hand traffic pattern, do not fly anything resembling a right-hand traffic pattern. The FARs forbid this, for a good reason.
I advocate setting up a (tight) traffic pattern to the landing area, just as is done at an airport. The pilot should figure out the wind, and therefore where "final" will be.
In this scenario you are on a special leg of the airport traffic pattern--the downwind entry leg. This is the formal way to enter a pattern on approaching an airport.
Embry-Riddle doesn't allow its instructors or students to enter the traffic pattern at the academy in formation, so two instructors watching from the ground were startled as I tucked in on Gauch on downwind. "They are so fired," one told the other.
A low approach, below traffic pattern or a touch and go operation is counted as both a landing and a takeoff, i.e., two operations.
To abort a landing. So called because after aborting, the pilot usually continues around the traffic pattern and lands on the next circuit.
The words are used as both noun and verb. One aborts by going around; the procedure is called a go around.
Decending turns: the lower wing stalls first. The last one is a common occurrence during traffic pattern operations as the turn from downwind to base and final are decending left (usually) turns, close to the ground with no room to recover.
A satellite airport is any other airport within the Class C airspace area except in compliance with FAA arrival and departure traffic patterns.
 See also: Pattern, Pilot, Flight, Aircraft, Direct
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