The circuit
Fly the circuit around the field and learn what you do and say on each leg.
City Centre Tower 118.200
Runway 24 · left-hand circuit · wind 240/10 kt
Circuit height: often 1,000 ft above the field; the aerodrome chart tells you.
Upwind
ClimbingYou take off into wind and climb straight ahead over the extended centreline. Do your after-take-off checks. Turn only once you are past the end of the runway and high enough: your school and the aerodrome chart give the numbers.
- You
City Centre Tower, C-GCLR, ready for departure
- Tower
C-GCLR, runway 24, cleared for take-off
- You
Runway 24, cleared for take-off, C-GCLR
At the holding point, when you are ready to go.
Wind and runway
- Runway in use
- 24
- Headwind
- 10 kt
- Crosswind
- 0 kt
You take off and land into wind. Your groundspeed is then lower, so you need less runway. That is why the runway in use follows the wind.