I don't do P&H at uncontrolled fields for the simple reason I can't see what
is happening on final... I stay at the line (or where one should be) until
the runway is clear for departure, and then I simply power around the turn
and smoothly go full throttle without stopping... There is zero lost time
compared to being in position and blind to the rear...

denny

"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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It is not a new technique; people have been doing it for years. Most
instructors discourage it for the reasons you mention, but there is
nothing
illegal about it. There was an enormously long thread about it last year.
Maybe the guy normally flies out of a towered airport and just doesn't
know
any better.

Surprising things can happen even at towered airports. Uncontrolled fields
sometimes look like you are flying into a hive of bees. Aircraft flying
instrument approaches can come in from any direction and circle to land at
below pattern altitude. Helicopters may be flying in the opposite pattern.
Almost anybody can be using almost any pattern entry. Airplanes can be
using
opposite runways simultaneously. Ultralights fly their own pattern. And
radios -- hah! If the guy is making position calls at all (if he even
*has*
radios) he is likely as not broadcasting on the frequency of the airfield
he
departed from and annoying the heck out of the tower there. All of it is
legal, or just common human error, a lot of it is required, and just about
anything can happen.

Pilots can holler all they want about that *$()% who just did something
they
didn't like, but that's too bad. Nine times out of ten you find that it is
the guy who thinks he was wronged that needs to apologize to somebody.

Keep a sharp eye out and don't assume that everybody follows the same
rules
that you do.