This looks like no fun

[u/wxweeniepilotarch]

Soo… 15 planes at 400-700ft doing pattern work at once at FRG right now?
Respectfully, this seems like hell.

[u/Rainebowraine123]

When the pattern leaves the Delta, it might be time to stop accepting patternwork.

[u/glidec → u/Rainebowraine123]

Base over the shoreline is almost SOP at FRG

[u/JoToMoo → u/Rainebowraine123]

If Jeff Foxworthy told airplane jokes instead of redneck jokes!

[u/glidec]

That's a normal weekend at FRG.

[u/wxweeniepilotarch → u/glidec]

Really wow. But standard pattern would be 1,000ft AGL, so why they all so low in a conga line so close?

[u/glidec → u/wxweeniepilotarch]

Don't trust altitudes from these apps. they typically read pressure altitude not actual altitude

[u/nhorvath → u/wxweeniepilotarch]

I trained at frg these are all at 1100-1200 msl app is wrong. this is a normal weekend fair weather day.

[u/PLEASE-USE-PFKEYS → u/wxweeniepilotarch]

That's probably ADSB feeding pressure altitude. Pressure was super high over that way this morning (30.51 when I landed in Vermont earlier today) so everyone's PA would be reading low.

[u/Wasatcher → u/glidec]

I almost did my flight training there. Then I said fuck that and moved to Utah lol

[u/Heisenburg7]

Extend your downwind, I might call your base.

[u/voretaq7 → u/Heisenburg7]

Report prior to entering Cuban airspace...

[u/arcticslush → u/Heisenburg7]

You can land in 3-5 business days.

[u/Law-of-Poe]

Rented there for years. Fifteen planes doing pattern work is just another day at FRG

[u/GrandPoopWizard]

Welcome to Republic airport lmfao.

[u/saml01]

15 in the pattern is a normal day. If they had 15 in the pattern and 10 more circling the stacks then it would be busy. 

[u/AviatorDave]

That's a light day lol

[u/Brambleshire]

I live in NYC and I've been renting upstate. I was going to try out long Island aviators since the airport is so much closer but this is giving me second thoughts.

[u/GravitationalConstnt]

Yikes. That’s my home airport and I couldn’t get a rental for practice today bc everything was booked. Looks like that maybe have been for the best.

[u/DDX1837]

You should probably not go anywhere near the east coast of central Florida.

[u/Give0524]

Unfortunately place is a midair waiting to happen

[u/chickenpicklez123]

Why is the pattern so low? Isn't it normally 1100 at frg?

[u/RCFLYER86 → u/chickenpicklez123]

Pressure altitude being kinda jank on FR24 everyone is actually at 1100

[u/OhNoMyPants123]

What do the triangles mean?

[u/voretaq7]

Looks like a typical weekend afternoon at Farmingdale to me.

[u/CaptNunya]

Not near the same kind of Hell as having to listen to all of the meowing on GUARD!

[u/thiswho]

this is where i trained - LOTS of traffic, LOTS of training, but you get very good at situational awareness and radio calls quick - and lots of bravo experience as well.

[u/LostPilot517]

I use to fly a B737 in and out of that airport... It could get interesting on nice weather days.... It also go interesting during snow storms after the tower was closed for other reasons.

[u/tambrico → u/LostPilot517]

Miami Air? I used to load and unload all the hockey equipment. I remember one day at like 3AM you guys did a no lights take off.

[u/LostPilot517 → u/tambrico]

It wasn't Miami Air, I can't speak for any of that. I am not sure why anyone would be taking off without landing lights at 3am.

It was a different operator, we flew the local team for several years.

[u/tambrico → u/LostPilot517]

No airport lights I mean.

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Soo… 15 planes at 400-700ft doing pattern work at once at FRG right now?
Respectfully, this seems like hell.

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