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When at a class D towered airport and instructed to make "left pattern for runway 3," am I supposed to wait for the base leg turn until tower clears me for landing? This seems to be the norm, but I can't find anything in the FAR/AIM to indicate what is acceptable.

Thanks, Dave

For whatever reason, "Radar flight following unavailable." I was confused, but continued VFR at that point.

http://www.pilotedge.net/recordings/hou ... _18011.mp3 at 5:24

Also, listen at 7:30 regarding an approach "power failure."

When going for my V-02 two "odd" things happened which I was unsure of.

(1) Prior to takeoff, clearance Delivery gave me a heading and a Departure frequency. After takeoff, I took CD's heading, but wasn't sure when or if I was supposed to tune away from the tower towards the departure frequency. I ...

So, after taking a closer look a the charts, I have a couple of theories:

(1) Class B & C airports have a note to "Contact XXX Approach within 20nm" in the charts. I suppose this is the cue to contact approach and not tower.
(2) No approach contact needed for class D airports.

This leaves more ...

I'm running through the pilot edge VFR certs, and one thing confuses me: during a cross country flight when approaching the desired destination airport (or any other airspace for that matter), should I contact tower or approach? Similarly, if I wanted to pass through a class B airspace VFR, should I ...