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Consider using keyboard shortcuts to manipulate the COM1 stdby freq i actually stumbled across a nice shortcut, with vatsim xsquawkbox installed on xp11, i can hit '<enter> //127.8' and it will change the com1 frequency. between anticipated flipflops like tower/dep and suprise changes like crossing...

thank you ryan, thats quite authoritative! i appreciate your consideration of my scenario to help me learn how to be safe and predictable.

i've found similar statements to this, which support the idea of 'if issued entered right downwind, proceed direct' "Pilots do not fly a standard traffic pattern at a towered airport, with a 45-degree entry to the downwind leg. Instead, aircraft enter the airport vicinity as instructed by ATC, ...

thanks for your response zerofay! if you scroll down on the inline picture, you can see the green line which is the actual flight path. you can see i basically did what you describe although not as square as could have been. my thought was the the tower specifically telling me to proceed direct down...

2017-09-16_15-38-47.jpg had an awesome experience today, inbound north for VNY, which is a right pattern only airport. to the east is burbanks class C to SFC. due to freq congestion my call to tower was at 6 miles in for the right downwind. so at point A, i had to figure out what to do. Normally, i...

i seem to be doing well staying in front of the airplane during departure, however on the decent, especially IFR using a complex STAR and being hopped from center to socal to socal west to approach to tower while trying to hit my altitude steps, i get behind the airplane, and get lost on who im talk...