In article ,
Jose wrote:

If you're in the circuit, and about to turn base, or have just turned base,
but you've done a reasonably wide circuit, and another a/c calls a 5 mile
straight in final, what happens if you calculate that you will not get down
and clear before he lands? Do you contact the other a/c and advise him you
are already on base, or are already in the pattern, and ask him to join
downwind?

I call and tell him where I am. We negotiate who will be first and who
will be second.


Actually, since you are already in the pattern, and he is calling a
straight-in entry, he is not yet in the pattern! Therefore, you have the
ROW and he must adjust for you.