how would you enter this pattern?

Okay, it's spring on the seacoast and the wind is coming from the E
and SE. My favorite destination airport has two runways, grass 14/32
and asphalt 10/28. I much prefer to land on the grass, which is
primarily for ultralights, while everyone else prefers the asphalt
because it seems longer even though it isn't. (The grass runway
crosses the asphalt so most of us who use it confine our activities to
the northern part.)

The usual wind direction is from the north or west, so the traffic
pattern for runway 32 keeps me well out of the traffic for runway 28.
But the spring is a different matter. I've never landed on 14, and it
seems to me that a normal 45 entry would put me directly above the
asphalt runway, so that when I turned downwind I would intersect the
downwind leg for runway 10. That seems unnecessarily provocative!

What would you do? (Yeah, yeah, you'd land on the asphalt, but dang,
it's rough! And grass is where Cubs belong.)

Most everybody in these parts favors the 45 entry, sometimes from the
opposite direction with a midfield crossover to the downwind. But in
this case, midfield crossover for 14 again puts me crossing the
downwind leg for 10.


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