How To Fly A Standard Traffic Pattern - MzeroA Flight Training 

The least I can do is to thank you for such an amazing instructional real life scenario video, it is incredible the time and effort that you invest in your videos for our safety and learning. The more I study aviation the more I appreciate your videos.

This video is just as much about avoiding traffic as it is for learning the traffic pattern. Thanks for the upload.

As a rookie I appreciate all of the dialog in this video. This is exactly what I'm practicing today. However it ends up being a talking-head style lesson for the first half of the video. I would suggest some live views or drawings would add quite a lot of clarity to this session. The live video portion was good. Thanks for doing the preparation, making the video, and posting it.

16:33 - “Just because I have the runway doesn’t mean they can’t cut you off or something”. So true! Great reminder to stay vigilant! Fantastic video on flying the pattern!

16:30 walking, driving, flying, I always like to say the Right of Way is used to determine fault AFTER the accident. It is not a guaranteed magic shield around you.

Wow, I learn so much from you Jason. Thank you!

Well done Jason to you and the team. Great ground school and in flight work.

As a low hours student pilot I am watching a LOT of aircraft RU-vid right now and this video has really stood out for it clarity and ease of understanding. Thanks man! Subbed.

Hi Jason, your videos are great. I received my VFR-PPL five years ago and enjoy watching your videos on days I can’t go fly. Your videos reinforce good practices. Thanks for the uploads.

Pre-solo student pilot here. My CFI regularly assigns your videos for me to watch. Very helpful! Thanks so much!

Had some struggle on my ground school lesson for the Traffic pattern, watched this on lunch break at work and it’s becoming so clear now

Another good Acronym for downwind checks is BUMFISH Brakes Undercarriage Mixture Fuel Instruments Switches Hatches&Harneses

Excellent! Very thorough. Thanks!!

Great Video. Went over traffic patterns today in ground school and this video helps connect the dots.

Jason. I love your videos. This one on landing was very beneficial.

Thank you! i really enjoyed the video! It was very easy to follow and really helped me! this is my third summer working on my private and hopefully getting it done soon!

Wonderful video. Very helpful. Thanks so much!

Thank you Jason great practical learning

Really great stuff. Thank you.

So nice that you actually speak slow enough that us newbies can understand what is going on

Beautifully described.

Great video. Longtime watcher here. I appreciate the radio communication pointers in an untowered airport like that one... smooth landing as well!

Thanks a lot. I really got a great deal from this now I can relax a little.

I would love to come and see you for training You are very thorough with your words,and easy to understand

Love it very simple lesson

thank you very much for the video

@11:30 Sorry to be a nag, but my CFI drilled this one in and as such it has become a major pet peeve of mine as well. In truth though, it’s a common misconception that may compromise safety. I’m surprised to hear you say the upwind leg begins the moment you take off. The AIM is pretty clear that that is the departure leg with upwind leg being a portion of the traffic pattern in the direction of landing opposite the runway of the downwind leg. See AIM 4-3-2 and 4-3-3 including the figures: Upwind leg. A flight path parallel to the landing runway in the direction of landing Departure leg. The flight path which begins after takeoff and continues straight ahead along the extended runway centerline. The departure climb continues until reaching a point at least 1 / 2 mile beyond the departure end of the runway and within 300 feet of the traffic pattern altitude.

Well done

Needed this!

Jason, great updated video! When will these new videos and content be updated in groundschool academy for your members?

Good info. Visual diagrams would greatly help!

This was helpful! I am a pretty new student pilot, everything is like drinking from a fire-hose at this point! One thing that would be great on this video if you ever re-do it would be a quick diagram on a whiteboard of the concepts. Great video, I have your book, too and I really found it helpful. Thanks!

Great Video, thx! :)

This was almost perfect. Thanks for this, it really helps me out and there was a TON of info in this video. The only thing that would have made it better was you mentioned when you added 10* flaps on the downwind leg but never mentioned adding any additional flaps on left base or final.

with all respect since you're teaching about safety while in the pattern. it was unsafe to turn base when the other faster plane just called in 6 miles final while you're at lower speed and he's obviously faster. an extended downwind should've been the SAFE move . I'm only saying this since PPL students are probably still learning from this video.

I think Jason would have a smile on his face and a positive attitude even if he was in a situation where the squawked 7500!

excellent video and information i havent made a landing yet, but this will certainly help me think about where i am, where THEY are, and working together to make sure everyone lands safely... if the arrow had been closer before making your x-wind turn, would it have been the proper thing to extend the downwind to allow him to land first?

Great review of proper traffic pattern. Sadly too many (lazy) pilots think the pattern is an oval, not a rectangle and like to shave those corners. My instructor way back when always stressed, "square turns" and proper, concise radio work.

I've heard about the "Perfect pattern" so many times... I'm sick of it. While you are 100% correct... you become a better pilot to assume you will never have a perfect pattern. When I was doing solo work way back when (early 90's)... the towner said they would call my base. Well... they forgot about me, and I had a 15 mi final. Totally different sight picture, and no longer became "Cookie cutter". OR... they tell you to turn in tight to get in front of something big coming in straight. So then... you get to practice a slip to get it down. OR... you think you are landing on one runway with left... but they change you to a different runway with a RP. I guess it's good to learn in a larger airport since you are forced to think and respond to more going on.

I am guessing you cover Compensating for the wind as your flying the pattern in another video, as well as bank angle on different turns in the pattern.

Great video. When do you start descending, when you fly a traffic pattern? I was waiting for you to say that...but I know other stuff was going on.

Regarding your technique of not extending flaps in a turn, there is the reduction of stall speed that happens with flap extension that mitigates the increase in stall speed that happens with increased bank angle. And, the turn helps mitigate the ballooning effect of flap extension. So, a case can be made that turns in the pattern (particularly the downwind-to-base turn) are an ideal place to extend flaps.

Sometimes we are unaware if incoming traffic is faster or slower. I actually never heard of an Arrow but, then again I’m new to flying.

Awesome 😎😎😎😎 great

Need help in reducing the hesitation while landing (wobbling left and right and getting confused). Or may be - How to keep the final stabilized for easy landing. Please point to video or upload one. Thanks for all your videos.

Just a few lessons in.. seems easy enough when I'm on the ground, but every time I'm in the pattern concentrating on piloting the ac, I always freeze up on the mic and my instructor has to either take controls or take over the calls. It's easier said than done but I know it will come more naturally with time. Very frustrating right now though!

Nice video. So even though he is one step ahead of you, on final, you are number 1, just because you are closer and lower, but still on base?

Question… What if you’re taking off on the opposite side (I assume runway 23), would you still do a left pattern?

Jason, could you do a video how to request the bridge VFR transition thru class Bravo at TPA?

So what do you do if you're on base and you realize you are about to collide with someone coming straight in? You're low, you're slow. Do you fly upwards? (in a Cessna 152.. how soon can you get clear of the rapid oncoming traffic?) Do you fly down? You're low, flying down seems like a very extreme evasive maneuver. Also, what if you're on final and realize there's a faster plane behind you. How do you escape? I ask because this happened to a student pilot (that ended up dying)

Somebody please please answer. How do you know when to turn during a traffic pattern? Like when you take off on to the upwind leg, how do you know when to turn onto the crosswind leg? Please answer

Very interesting videos, especially for a student pilot training in a 172. Quick question - why do you always fly in the right seat?

Great job Jason. I think your 152 ultralight is supposed to be at 500 agl pattern though 😊

So when flying a 172 downwind to base its optimal to have the runway about halfway up your window as a visual reference? Great video

if this guy was my instructor, my life would be perfect😅. But nonetheless, this was a really good video, coz I'll be doing circuits soon😎

Jason please give information on how to prevent skidding after landing.

What are the standard air speeds in the Cessna 172 on the base leg and on Final Approach? And what is your airspeed as you cross over the runway threshold?

Do you teach cross control for landing like side slips into a cross wind for landing?

What's "not correct" about a right (crosswind) departure? What's wrong with it? It's a departure. What is correct? Is an aircraft departing runway 5 (for an East, S.E., or South departure) expected to continue left traffic around the pattern (while climbing)? What calls would be made? "Cessna 12R is turning left downwind for an Eastbound departure" - "Cessna 12R is turning left base... umm ...for an East departure" - " 12R is turning left upwind... ... but we'll be breaking it off (right) for an Eastbound departure" ??? How about arrivals to runway 5 from the South (or S.W.) ? Are they supposed to enter a left upwind and circle round the pattern?

can you explain how the other 150 should have exited the traffic pattern properly? say he was taking off on runway 05 VFR to an airport that required a heading of 140 to get to? Jason said it was not correct for him to turn right crosswind. should the other 150 have made almost an entire other lap and exited to his heading of 140 on the base leg? if you could clear that up thatd really help me out.

Good video but the time in the plane did not focus enough on flying the pattern like you did on the ground. A mention of Vy while taking off; calling out altitudes and power settings; what you're doing with the nose; etc. All would have been helpful and would have reinforced what you said before you were in the air.

Can anyone tell me why the AIM suggests to start the turn to crosswind @ 700' agl? It used to be 500' agl.

I am a student pilot. Can someone please explain why the two right hand departures were not proper even with the one aircraft calling out his turn to the right? Thanks in advance.

What would be the proper procedure to make a RH departure? Fly the runway heading until you're above TPA and then make your turn?

Almighty c-152

Do you teach side slips?

Can I ask why you always fly in the right seat?

So it isn't always necessary to drop flaps completely on each approach in a 172? (Simmer here, not actual pilot, but trying to keep it real)

Which is it? Flaps only on final or downwind? Y’all contradict each other

The My local FSDO told me that a iPad with fore flight or garmin pilot or apps alike for use on a check ride should not be limited or discouraged of use

Where is the animation? No idea first left? 350?

It's very hard to maintain heading when the wind is so strong tho

As a flight instructor, I wonder why do some pilots landing at a non-towered airports say, the word, traffic at the end of their position report. For example, Dewitt traffic, Skyhawk 2727X, turning one mile final, runway 36, Dewitt traffic. Don't they know that you only say the word, traffic at the beginning of a transmission and not at the end. For example, Dewitt traffic, Skyhawk 2727X, turning one mile final, Dewitt. Remember, at the end of the radio call, you are making mention of the airport at which you are landing. Therefore, the last word out of the pilots' mouth should be the name of that airport; not the word traffic.

Wish an image was used in the video

Hey there. Recent tragic and fatal midair collision last week that really seemed similar to your base-to-final approach at the end of this video. What are your thoughts on the big similarities/differences and how to avoid? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1MwccgpwP-o.html

At all this info you must included deiption of you are saying demostrate it visual

Wow, so many bad things in this video (not Jason)....9 mile straight in with 3 planes in the circuit is dangerous and making right turns departing a left hand circuit...boy there are some bad pilots out there. I nearly saw a collision when a plane decided to make a 10 mile straight in with 5 planes in the circuit, making radio calls on the wrong frequency...he nearly descended onto a plane already on final. Always best practice to join a circuit overhead and ensure you are on the right radio frequency. Planes already in the circuit have right of way.

nice brah you couldn't tone up the passion any higher if you tried!

I wish everyone would fly the pattern properly as you did. It would cut down on incidents and accidents. It’s certainly not rocket science.

The instruction is good but saturated with things that are non specific to the traffic pattern itself, comms and other distractions are not the purpose of this lesson, a sterile flight deck would be a much better environment to learn the basics.

increase volume. cant hear anything

To you said williston? Thats where my buddies would take me to do touch and gos