| This is a video that documents a slightly unusual pattern during practice at Norwood (KOWD). I decided to include part of the run-up in this video and it starts after I had gone through some of the checklist. There were some faster planes departing Norwood at the time and so I offered to begin my run-up on a connecting taxiway while the jets passed me on their way to the active runway. So when this video begins, I had done some of the run-up in the Cessna 172SP but you'll hear me given instruction by ground to proceed to the runway to finish things before takeoff. Once out there I finish the run-up checklist and it's important to note that after I call the tower for takeoff, he mistakenly starts to call be a Cherokee, and then catches himself. This becomes relevant a little while later. So I'm cleared for the pattern and I head out. It's a right pattern for 35 at Norwood, and on the downwind as I'm getting things stable, just before making my mid-field call, there is a call from the tower to Cherokee 2081-Sierra. As you will see, I don't answer. I remember wondering how I had missed that call, but now it's clear that I automatically ignored it because it began with Cherokee. A few seconds later he calls me back with call sign only and we get things straightened away. Because of traffic, the tower asked me to do a 360 in the patter for spacing. Not sure I'd ever done this before, but it made sense and as a bonus, it now gives you a better view of Boston in the distance and ... |
