Perhaps I'm not clear enough on the scenario I'm thinking of.
I'm not thinking of you being the guy "established" in the pattern,
but rather of the following scenario:

You are approaching a non-towered airport. There are several
aircraft in the pattern for runway 18, happily making circuits.
You observe that the wind actually favors runway 27.

Are you saying you approach the airport with an announcement
"Podunk traffic, Cessna 1234, the wind appears to favor runway
27, so that should be the active runway now" or something to that
effect (what exactly would you say?) and so far, everyone just
changes to runway 27 and you join them?

Or are you saying you'd broadcast that you're landing on 27 because
that's the runway the wind favors, and everyone else would break off
their pattern and follow you?


When I or others have announced a wind change, there has never been an issue
about switching to another runway. Communications are brief and contain the
relative information: "Podunk traffic, Cessna 1234, new wind direction 250,
perferred runway now 27, Podunk."

Thus far, no one has refused to adjust their pattern to the new runway. In
fact, I have seen pilots turn their planes around on the ground and taxi to
another runway because of a wind change that was announced by another pilot.


OK, now I'm curious here again. How do you see broadcasting your
reasons for choosing the runway you are using as "avoiding a potential
problem"?


Remember, you broadcast your position, intentions, etc., regardless of
whether or not there are other aircraft in the pattern. The reason I
broadcast my message is to eliminate the possible confusion (maybe I should
have used that word rather than "problem") over an airplane approaching the
field who has listened to AWOS, obtained the wind direction and determined
what runway they will be using. And then when they switch to CTAF have them
hear me using a different runway. It also gives them the ability to contact
me if they so desire. And be assured that I NEVER us a non-preferred runway
for x-wind practice when other aircraft are using the field (of course if
they are NORAD, then I can't respond to their approaching until I see them.)

Perhaps I need to say this since we don't know each other. I consider myself
a very "sky friendly" pilot. When I fly, I fly with other pilots in the sky.
I will not do anything that jeperdizes either their safety nor mine - at
least intentionally :-). I guess I am becoming confused over whether your
challenging what I do or if you're looking for rationale for making your
flying experiences better.


See, there you go trying to read between the lines :-)).

.... Perhaps you need to adjust what you write, to
better match what you mean?


Perhaps your right. Before I retired I spent over 35 years in jobs requiring
intensive writing skills, you would think that I could be a little clearer
wouldn't you? :-). I guess the problem with communicating in these
newsgroups is the fundmental principle of written/verbal communications -
know your audience and then taylor your communications to that audience.

No two people who post to this newsgroup have the same background. Everyone
is different. Some are very young and some are retired; some are fresh
students and others have tens-of-thousands of flying hours and hold every
rating in the book, not to mention those in between; some have great
communication skills, others..., well you get the idea. Added to that is the
frame-of-mind the writer/reader is in at the time the writting/reading takes
place. That frame-of-mind will determine the inflection given to words as
they are written/read (that is referred to as tone-of-font). What the reader
perceives as the "tone" may not in any way reflect that of the writer's.
Unfortunately, the definition of communications is not what is written or
said but what is perceived by the receiver to have been written or said.

I hope we're communicating. :-)

Harry