Hilarious!

There is nothing hilarious about the reality of flying the pattern!

They forgot the guy that just doesn't bother talking on the radio, even though his radio is working, because he firmly believes that if everybody else thinks his radio isn't working, everybody else has to get out of his way.

Dupe...

https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/How-to-Fly-the-Pattern-Without-Making-an--of-Yourself/147-2409523/

My instructor said students are taught this to teach them to be able accurately report their position. Most discover it's not necessary.

As a rotary pilot I liked he put in the mention about us lol. I like his commentary wish I would of had more videos with his narrations than the ones I had at my flight school!

Unless your in a stack at a non towered airport that is routinely used as a training ground. You hear and see it all. Sometimes it can be hillarious. I do understand the seriousness and gravity of it all though

There's a fine line between making the "book" calls and making the calls you need to make, or don't need to make. Somedays you can do pattern work and never use the radio. Other days making the book calls just clutters the frequency if you feel you've got command of the situation and don't need to announce yourself every three seconds, thereby leaving air time for the other five aircraft in the pattern to do exactly that.

I'm also a firm believer in sending polite messages. You know, like "Cessna Two Seven Golf, do you have the helicopter on right downwind in sight?" Or "Helicopter Delta Tango, short final runway 34, has the Baron waiting on Alpha in sight." When people hear their call sign it wakes them up and makes them take notice of you, which one hopes will help them not do something stupid in your general direction.

BREAK

Had a good one last weekend. Practicing a 180 auto in a busy pattern at an uncontrolled field, made the call, started the auto, and this guy at the hold line makes his departure call. Now we were behind him, being a good little helicopter making right traffic and all that sort of thing, so he couldn't see us, but still...

So we make another radio call and the guy is not hearing us. And then the two other planes he was leaving for breakfast with, one on each of the two parallel taxiways waiting to follow, are calling him. And off he goes into the wild blue, making his calls but not hearing a thing. I really wonder what they might have talked about at breakfast

Make sure to announce what airport you're at as well.  Many CTAF frequencies are overlapped at various airports, with the same runways and prevailing winds, and on a sunny clear day, you can get calls for "Runway 3-2" at multiple airports. Always use "Airport name traffic, Cessna 792 is downwind for runway 32 Airport name traffic" and repeat again if crowded CTAF.

And the calls for 2 miles out on a 45, 1 mile out on a 45, turning downwind, turning base, and final are to let others know where you are....don't assume.  I've been in near misses caused by careless pilots who assumed.