I usually do a right upwind and complete pattern, which is what you ended up doing. Some people do a tear-drop, but that gets really close to those hills.
I was initially thinking of flying north and be east of the field then left turn to enter right base, it was too busy to do that. I flew west of the field and entered right downwind at the edge of the runway, it would have been a better decision to overfly the airport midfield to enter right downwind.
Nice! I was flying up there last month after picking up my plane from San Jose! It’s so pretty around that area
Thank you, many congrats on your new airplane.
I usually do a right upwind and complete pattern, which is what you ended up doing. Some people do a tear-drop, but that gets really close to those hills.
I was initially thinking of flying north and be east of the field then left turn to enter right base, it was too busy to do that. I flew west of the field and entered right downwind at the edge of the runway, it would have been a better decision to overfly the airport midfield to enter right downwind.