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Originally Posted by jtsastre Since I’ve been flying a traffic pattern at my local airport a lot as I train for my private license, it made me wonder how much an airport’s traffic pattern is implemented into commercial flights (i.e. commercial jets) at major controlled airports? Are the commercial flights usually directed to the active landing runway from the beginning of their flight? Or are they ever required to enter the pattern at an airport depending on from which direction their coming? It seems, from the flights I have been on, that we seem to fly straight in to land. I appreciate any information anyone has on this. If the question is confusing, please specify which part I can clarify. Thanks
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Usually they're on an IFR flight plan so they'll fly them straight in. Airliners fly in Class A airspace which requires to be on IFR.
When you're doing your pattern practice you're flying VFR.