The article criticizes modern flight training for teaching pilots to fly overly large and inefficient traffic patterns, contrasting it with the traditionally tighter and more skillful patterns.

Many common "pattern sins" in aviation, such as excessively wide or fast patterns and poor speed control, lead to inefficiency, safety hazards, and difficulty in coordinating with other aircraft.

Have you ever noticed hurricane hunters’ flight patterns shown by meteorologists on TV look like random, odd shapes? Those flight patterns may look like boxes or stars, but they serve specific ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A band of large drones appears to be flying nighttime search patterns over northeast Colorado — and local authorities say they don’t know who’s behind the ...

A band of large drones appears to be flying nighttime search patterns over northeast Colorado — and local authorities say they don’t know who’s behind the mysterious aircraft. The drones, estimated to ...

The second half of hurricane season is here and there have already been 16 named storms to keep hurricane hunters busy. But have you ever noticed hurricane hunters’ flight patterns shown by ...