ORIGINAL: BIG4D
Great view points and great suggestions. Thanks, they are all well taken. On a similiar toppic. When you are flying in a pattern, does the pattern meen you fly over the runway, up high, and the down wind leg is away from the runway.
I'm not sure how to describe it. Picture an oval track in the sky. Is the front straight-a-way over the runway? I'm not sure what the ''accepted'' pattern would be. I'm sure it varys by club. Just looking for what your club/field has adopted.
See the attached schematics, BIG4D.
Some people just CAN'T fly a right pattern; even when they take off and land from right to left, they reverse the natural pattern inmediately after take off.
For a while after solo, it is natural just to feel uncomfortable sharing the air with other pilots.
I recommend you:
1) To use "the second floor" of the pattern, flying higher than the rest, but in the same direction (even if it is wrong).
2) To listen to the voiced intentions around you, trying to make a mental map of the situation at the field (who and how many are up, when someone is on the field, when there is a take-off, landing or dead stick in progress).
3) To be clear and loud announcing your intentions (even if others don't do it).
4) To know the really unsafe and reckless pilots and to avoid sharing flight time with them.
5) To get use to share the air space and time with safe pilots, being always known by respect for and consideration of others.
6) To HAVE FUN.
Regards!