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Case III recovery : Maximum Marshal pattern length


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I everyone,

All is in the title : I am wodering if in case of a Case III recovery, the marshal pattern has a maximum length.

For exemple if I have a 6 minutes delay for the EAT I can fly a 2'(turn) + 1' cold + 2'(turn) + 1' (hot) pattern.
But if the delay is longer let's immagine 12 minutes can I extend the hot and cold segments to 4' (2+4+2+4) or should I fly 2 times the pattern with shorter segments like 2x(2+1+2+1) ?

Thanks

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Providing you hit your commence time it doesn't matter afaik...

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I'd say that hard limit is 50 nm - as CATCC area. But IMO it's better to make more short circles, than extend one. My technique is 2 min/10 nm leg.

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From what I gather listening to podcasts, the pattern lengths and pattern speeds do not matter as long as the two following are observed:

1. Meeting commence time within acceptable limits (+/-10 seconds IIRC?)
2. Not endangering yourself and/or others

I recall a story from "Puck" about flying the F-14D in the CASE III stack, and plugging in burners to get 550KGS to hit commence on time.

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