For the Instructors in training please be careful copying what your CFI told you and for the love of god do not make stuff up

Making lesson plans is your chance to teach yourself something anew again. Too often in this industry is bad knowledge passed down the chain because the school is small and the chief pilot usually a hardy older gentlemen who will show you how it's actually done. Remember to trust but verify.

Your references should be official FAA publications such as the Pilot Handbook Aeronautical Knowledge, Aeronautical information manual, Airplane Flying Handbook, Advisory circulars, the ACS and your POH to start. I'm not saying you should read them all (you should) but you might sometimes be surprised what you've heard and what the book actually says.

Why do I say this? Because it seems like some people can't agree how to enter the pattern at our nearby uncontrolled...