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The Best Way To Fly An Air port Traffic Pattern   by Meridith Cami

All runways on an airport are assigned a number that identifies it. The unique number that each runway is given is based on its compass heading. If you saw a runaway marked with 185 on it, than it would be named 18. Which is then read back on the radio as one eight. The 185 degree alignment is first rounded down to 185 and then the last digit is omitted to get the runway number.

When an airport has more than one direction running on a runway heading than the runway is assigned an additional L or R suffix. The L and R simply stand for left or right.

The final runway that you are ultimately given to perform landing or take of is based on weather and wind conditions. The general procedure of most airports is to make sure that you take of or land into the direction of the wind, this is important because:

1. With the wind behind you, you can speed up faster and lift of with less runway
2. With the wind flying into the plane, it slows you down and reduces the amount of runway used before slowing down

Most approaches to runways are made using a rectangular approach called the traffic pattern, this is done so that all approaches in and out of an airport and standardized and allows an orderly flow of air traffic.

Traffic pattern starts and ends at the runways. Each part of the rectangular traffic pattern is given an unique name to indentify it.

1) The direction pointing straightout from the runway is called upwind
2.Then a left turn is made here for the crosswind leg.
3. Then you make another left turn which is parallel to the runway, called downwind
4.Another left turn and we are on the base leg
5)A final left turn aligns us with the runway and is known as final approach

At most airports traffic pattern is flown at 800 to 1000 feet AGL. Airports are controlled by towers, these are called air traffic control towers and they will guide you on how to enter traffic pattern. At uncontrolled towers it becomes the individual pilots responsibility for maintaining traffic pattern in a controlled and orderly fashion. All a pilot has to do in uncontrolled aiports is to use the radio and tune to the airport frequency and make a quick broadcast to announce their landing or takeoff intentions.

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