Unicom: 03/05

Patterns, Tailwheels
I love the information quality and the casual yet serious writing style of your authors. In “See And Avoid Works” (January 2005), Tom Turner did a wonderful job of describing how to avoid running into our peers in the skies. However, he also did a good job of calling virtually every one of your readers a “nonconformist idiot who flies a left-hand pattern when right turns are appropriate, or makes the hazardous straight-in.” Who among us has not made the right-traffic mistake at some point (c’mon, think about it)? Straight-ins may not be the wisest choice at some fields, but different situations warrant different actions. And in an emergency, anything goes...