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Response from my instructor, for anyone interested: Flying in the pattern without a control tower, that will ask you to modify your pattern, with aircraft that are either slower or faster is one of the skills you are developing. First, the landing aircraft “owns” the runway until they are...

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During my second solo (touch-and-goes at an uncontrolled airport with a right-hand traffic pattern), the pattern started getting pretty congested. I was flying a Cessna 150, and was joined by other trainers, a couple of twins and one gulfstream jet. My question is: What tools are at a pilots...