Kyle Boatright wrote:

It appears that part of
the training for flying a kerosene burner is that you are *required* to land
straight in, no matter how many airplanes are in the pattern.

Well, they pretty much are required to do that. It's safer to come straight in
than to try to land using the large pattern they would have to fly. You sure
can't fly the same pattern in a Citation that I can in a Maule.

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.