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If you read the AIM carefully, you will see that the overhead  maneuver 
described below is contained within the instrument portion of the AIM.  Pilots 
should be on an instrument flight plan, must have an operational need to  perform 
the maneuver and may have to perform a standard traffic pattern if the  
overhead cannot be approved by tower. It is important to remember these finer  
points when you are standing in front of the NTSB's administrative law judge  (ALJ) 
explaining your actions in response to the FAA's request to suspend your  
pilot certificate for 180 days. The ALJ split the baby here locally  for a pilot 
and only suspended his certificate for 90 days. Both sides  are appealing. 
Jeff Edwards, CFI(I), MEI 
From the AIM: 5-4-25. Overhead Approach  Maneuver  

a. Pilots operating in accordance with an IFR flight  plan in Visual 
Meteorological Conditions (VMC) may request ATC  authorization for an overhead 
maneuver. An overhead maneuver is not an  instrument approach procedure. Overhead 
maneuver patterns are  developed at airports where aircraft have an operational 
need to conduct the  maneuver. An aircraft conducting an overhead maneuver is  
considered to be VFR and the IFR flight plan is cancelled when the aircraft  
reaches the initial point on the initial approach portion of the maneuver.  
(See _FIG  5-4-22_ (http://www.faa.gov/ATpubs/AIM/Chap5/aim0504.html#FIG 5-4-22) 
.) The existence of a standard overhead maneuver pattern  does not eliminate 
the possible requirement for an aircraft to conform to  conventional 
rectangular patterns if an overhead maneuver cannot be  approved. Aircraft operating to 
an airport without a functioning  control tower must initiate cancellation of 
an IFR flight plan prior to  executing the overhead maneuver. Cancellation of 
the IFR flight plan must be  accomplished after crossing the landing threshold 
on the initial portion of  the maneuver or after landing. Controllers may 
authorize an overhead maneuver  and issue the following to arriving aircraft:  

How are you supposed to fly about the traffic pattern? See  AIM 4-3-3. 
1. Enter pattern in level flight, abeam the  midpoint of the runway, at 
pattern altitude. (1,000' AGL is recommended  pattern altitude unless established 
otherwise. . .) Most Traffic  Pattern Altitudes (TPA's) are published in the 
Airport Facility Directory  (Jeff)

2. Maintain pattern altitude until abeam  approach end of the landing runway 
on downwind leg.

3.  Complete turn to final at least 1/4 mile from the  runway.

4. Continue straight ahead until beyond departure  end of runway.

5. If remaining in the traffic pattern,  commence turn to crosswind leg 
beyond the departure end of the runway within  300 feet of pattern altitude.

6. If departing the traffic  pattern, continue straight out, or exit with a 
45 degree turn (to the left  when in a left-hand traffic pattern; to the right 
when in a right-hand traffic  pattern) beyond the departure end of the runway, 
after reaching pattern  altitude. 
7. Do not overshoot final or continue on a track which  will penetrate the 
final approach of the parallel runway.

8.  Do not continue on a track which will penetrate the departure path of  
the parallel runway. 


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<P align=3Dleft>If you read the AIM carefully, you will see that the overhea=
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