Exclusive Video: A Humorous But-Not-That-Gentle Look at Flying Traffic Patterns

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Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at 12:00 AM ET

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Key Takeaways:

Paul Bertorelli's video offers a critical perspective on current flight instruction practices.
The video specifically targets flight instructors (CFIs) who teach students to fly excessively wide traffic patterns.
Bertorelli describes these patterns as impractical and inefficient, suggesting they are too large even for aircraft like a Triple Seven.

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If you like your aviation information to come straight out of the AIM, umm – this is not that. In this week’s video, Paul Bertorelli takes a somewhat biting look into the heads of CFIs who teach their students to fly traffic patterns that would be too large for a Triple Seven.

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