Danbury Based Pilots and their Traffic Patterns

Since we opened Motion Simulations in June I've had the opportunity to fly with people who have flown or driven in from a distance, but the majority of the pilots are based /fly out of Danbury. You can spot it in a minute when landing at airports without obstructions. They all tend to do the same thing stay high until short final and then drop in, whereas someone else tends to fly a normal approach. Just an observation

You can always tell a DXR Pilot by how they fly in the traffic pattern. The first time I realized this was in 2003 when I went down to Beaufort SC to train at Doug Carmody's Executive Flight Training. My objective was to get my commercial and CFI ratings and do the training and check rides in a work week. 

We flew several times a day and both Doug and the examiner commented about how I was still at 900 feet on 3/4 mile final and how difficult it was making my accuracy landings. I had to explain to them about the terrain surrounding my home airport and how the "normal flatter" approach doesn't work out as well when you have hills surrounding three sides of the field.  They explained to me about excuses that I was making them.