Right of Way in the pattern?
			 
			 
			
		
		
		
		
Is this true in Canada as well as the USA? 
 
Chris 
 
 
Jim Macklin wrote: 
 Left traffic is standard, seems you were in the wrong  
 pattern at an uncontrolled airport. 
  
  
  
 "Kingfish"  wrote in message  
   ups.com... 
 | Had this happen on Sunday up in Ontario. We were flying  
 into Muskoka (a 
 | non-towered field) in the Pilatus and were "cleared" in by  
 Canadian 
 | FSS. (We were IFR but in good VMC wx) We enter on the  
 right downwind to 
 | Rwy 18 and hear another acft on freq - apparently he's NE  
 of the field 
 | entering on the left base. We figure we're quite a bit  
 faster than the 
 | 172 and should reach final first. Turns out we're both on  
 opposite 
 | bases at the same altitude at which point my partner says  
 we're lower 
 | and faster and we procede to turn final. Well, the guy in  
 the 172 gets 
 | a bug up his ass and is whining to FSS that he had to take  
 "evasive 
 | action" to avoid us - not even close - and makes some  
 comment about 
 | calling the RCMP (like they actually have jurisdiction  
 here?). I know 
 | the rule about the acft on final having right of way, but  
 neither of us 
 | had reached that point yet, and both acft were at the same  
 altitude on 
 | opposite bases. Who had the ROW? 
 |  
  
  
 
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
	
		 
			
 
			
			
			
				 
            
			
			
            
            
                
			
			
		 
		
	
	
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