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Depending on the runway, it's condition and ATC, you do just that... abeam the numbers make your turn to base and fly your normal pattern, even though some of it will be over a runway. The one that always confuses me is: "Report 5nm base..."

Too bad, we couldn't just have a Houston sub-forum for y'all.

Hey Dutchess ! I've come to the party late, as usual, what rating are you working towards ?

But it doesn't sound like advanced training, sounds like the very basics.

When will they define "advanced instrument training" ? Seems that what's advanced for some will be routine for others and vice versa. On my commercial check-ride it seemed that we had the gear going up and down all the time. Landings, stalls, ground reference maneuvers... It would have been...

Hey Max, glad to see you on the board. I'm infrequently on here since the economy clipped my wings for now. I did enjoy your 1st Edition G1000. It saved me about 5hrs of flight time during checkouts. I used your book, and the Cessna simulator. By the time I got to the plane, I knew inside...

Dude... they are just poking fun at us flat-landers without any malice. It's the price we pay for living and flying in the East. I don't mind, I'm rarely out of gliding distance from an airport and ATC is always a mic click away.

Gotsa be a typo in all the excitement ! Congrats in advance...

+1 on Dauntless... good people, good product. Got me through Private, Instrument and Commercial. I really liked their test simulator. I did go out and buy the test supplements from someplace, don't remember where, instead of printing from the program. Ink is expensive and the supplements...

It's a bump until a down draft sends you into the cumulo-granite... despite the lack of vertical draft, you're still just as dead. The folks at KMRN (Foothills Regional) used to offer specific mountain flying. The Asheville airport (KAVL) is easy to get into. I did it as a newbie. Check with...

w00t! well done.

Sadly, I ran of $$$ before I could even take part. I think Aviation WX is the least understood topic among pilots, especially those of us who fly IFR infrequently. We know enough to be safe, but not enough to be effective and wring out that last bit of utility from our IFR tickets. I hope you...

True, but I got a restricted-radio operators license anyway ! :yes:

I love RWY 32. Unless the winds really force me to one of the big runways, I always try to return to RDU via RWY32. There are challenges to it, so you have to be awake and aware. If you take-off on 14, it's downhill and at the end of the runway is Umstead Park, lots of tall trees. Even at...

Hey! The next time I'm up there visiting, I'll look you up. I like KPOU. I remember sitting at the picnic table watching planes take-off and land. That was before the chain-link fence was put up.

When the time is right, I'll be entertaining all these ideas. For now, I'll get comfy on the sidelines and live vicariously through y'all.

I thought that runway was decommissioned and is now a taxi-way, unless we're talking about RWY-32. I love RWY-32.

I request that at KRDU if I get the 5L/23R, it's 10,000' and if I put the 172 down at the numbers, I'll tie up the runway longer than necessary for the big iron behind me. 2000' down is the cross taxi-way that will take me back to the FBO from where I started. I try to land just after the...

Yeah, I hear ya. All this nonsense with DCA. They should make an exception for light GA to land there. Altho, not sure I could afford the landing fees or the fuel. I started the vetting process so I could fly to College Park (KCGS) to see baseball games. Everyone has these cool little maps...

I want to get to KIGX before it's gone. When I was actively flying, I tried to land a one new (to me) NC airport each week. I was making pretty good progress before my wings got economically clipped. I have one of the NCDOT aviation maps in my office with little circles around each airport I...