 taking off and joining - who's priority?
>>Consider an airfield with no radio, and no flying allowed on the
>>deadside.
>>
>>This means that aircraft joining overhead fly to the downwind end of the
>>runway, then along the runway whilst descending to circuit height.
>>
>>If an aircraft arrives at this position (ie, at join height overhead the
>>downwind end of runway) at the same time as another aircraft is lining
>>up to take-off, there's contention for circuit height somewhere around
>>the upwind end of the runway.
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:54:24 +0000, Geo wrote:
> I don't see that it makes much difference if the dead side cannot be
> used. An overhead join involves a crosswind leg over the numbers at
> circuit height.
I think the significance of the "no deadside" is that it means the descent
from join to circuit height is in a straight line along the runway, and
much steeper than if it's in a longer curve on the deadside. It also means
that the runway (and probably the whole airfield) is out of sight
underneath the whole time, so he can't see what aircraft lining up is
doing.
OTOH the lining-up aircraft can see the joining one, so maybe it would be
prudent for him to wait until the joiner's at least turned off the runway
line.
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