Traffic Patterns, Nontowered Operations, and Right of Way

• Episode: 15
• Version: 0.1.11

In this episode

This lesson follows a training flight to fictional Pine Valley Municipal. It connects a current airport picture, CTAF communication, visual scanning, pattern entry, spacing, and right-of-way decisions without treating a radio report or a published plan as a clearance.

Study materials and visual aids

• Private Pilot ACS communications task
• Private Pilot ACS traffic-pattern task
• PHAK traffic-pattern text and PHAK Figure 14-39 left-hand traffic pattern
• AC 90-66C preflight actions
• AIM CTAF guidance and AIM straight-in landing priority
• AC 90-66C standard entry and go-around path
• AFH upwind-side entry model and conflicting-entry retry
• AIM visual traffic-pattern indicators
• 14 CFR 91.113 right-of-way rules and 14 CFR 91.126 Class G pattern direction
• AC 90-48E scan technique and traffic displays
• AIM wake-turbulence guidance

Correction status

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