Mostly I find it can be annoying, as it compromises what you may be trying to practice. My home airport is a real problem, as it's the go-to place for doing touch and gos for a nearby very busy flight school. There can easily be 4-5 planes buzzing around the pattern at once. They schedule everybody at the same timeBoatguy wrote: ↑Sun Jul 12, 2020 10:14 pm I think IFR approaches in VMC at non-towered airports is one of the scarier things in flying. The VFR planes are flying a pattern and the approach brings us straight in on final. The VFR pilots may well have no idea what we're talking about if we say we're 10 miles out on the RNAV XX.
It's a missed blessing, though. It turns out that it drives our operations count way up at what would otherwise be a sleepy little airport. This helps when it comes to doling out Federal and State support.
One thing that has helped is that we recently got our own CTAF and it allows all of us to be more informative to each other about what we're doing and how we might blend in together. It's surprising how it has improved mutual respect