LIBRARY 025 · SPOKEN CHAPTER 7 · 2:51

Traffic and pattern spacing — Slow runway exit

Connect a spacing instruction to the same known aircraft throughout the sequence.

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Your scenario

You are flying Evektor, registration N827EV. You are on right downwind for runway 34R, indicated altitude 1600 feet. You are tuned to Paine Tower. You have ATIS information Juliet.

Practice goals

Respond aloud during each ten-second practice window, then compare with the example. Replay any exchange you want to practice.

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  1. 0:00 NARRATOR: Chapter 7. Here is the scenario: You're flying the pattern at Paine Field
  2. 0:05 with other traffic using the runway. Practice following Tower's spacing
  3. 0:10 instructions.
  4. 0:12 NARRATOR: Your starting details: You are flying Evektor, registration N827EV. You are
  5. 0:19 on right downwind for runway 34R, indicated altitude 1600 feet. You are tuned to Paine
  6. 0:27 Tower. You have ATIS information Juliet.
  7. 0:33 NARRATOR: Play the pilot. At each prompt, use the ten-second pause to respond aloud or
  8. 0:38 decide whether to transmit. Then compare with the example. This is simulated radio
  9. 0:43 practice.
  10. 0:46 NARRATOR: Scenario update: The scenario starts with you downwind for runway 34R.
  11. 0:50 Initial contact has already been established; there is no outstanding
  12. 0:54 clearance to enter or land on the runway.
  13. 0:58 NARRATOR: Scenario update: The tracked Cessna is still on your landing runway after
  14. 1:02 landing. It has not exited.
  15. 1:06 TOWER: Evektor 827EV, extend downwind, I'll call your base, Cessna on runway 34R
  16. 1:22 PILOT: extending downwind, you will call base, Evektor 827EV
  17. 1:28 NARRATOR: Scenario update: Time advances. The same Cessna exits at Foxtrot Three, with
  18. 1:33 its whole airframe beyond the runway holding-position marking, then taxies clear
  19. 1:37 of the exit along Foxtrot.
  20. 1:41 TOWER: Evektor 7EV, turn base now
  21. 1:53 PILOT: turning base, Evektor 7EV
  22. 1:57 TOWER: Evektor 7EV, runway 34R, cleared to land
  23. 2:11 PILOT: runway 34R, cleared to land, Evektor 7EV
  24. 2:16 NARRATOR: Scenario update: Time advances through the pattern. You are now on final
  25. 2:21 for runway 34R.
  26. 2:25 NARRATOR: Scenario update: The simulated landing is complete. You are slowing on
  27. 2:29 runway 34R.
  28. 2:32 NARRATOR: Scenario update: You have exited the runway. This lesson ends clear of the
  29. 2:37 runway, before further taxi instructions.
  30. 2:40 NARRATOR: Chapter debrief: The same traffic aircraft caused and resolved the spacing
  31. 2:44 restriction before the landing sequence continued.
  32. 2:48 NARRATOR: If you enjoyed this video like and subscribe

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