Case III recovery : Maximum Marshal pattern length

[CougarFFW04]

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

本帖最后于2024年2月1日，由CougarFFW04编辑

[speed-of-heat]

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

[Foka]

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.

[maxTRX]

... and there's always CV2 they can throw at you :)

[Nealius]

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.

本帖最后于2024年2月4日，由Nealius编辑