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I'm a student pilot and recently found out that non-standard traffic pattern altitudes are not necessarily listed in chart supplement (AFD) at some airports, and surprisingly learned this by entering at the wrong altitude at my home airport KBJC (field elevation 5673, TPA 6500) - I checked iFly, saw field elevation and no TPA listed and assumed 6700 (even though I kept thinking that 6500 sounded right for some reason)
Chart supplement says nothing about pattern altitude - https://aeronav.faa.gov/afd/22jan2026/sw_342_22JAN2026.pdf - which I assume is why nothing is mentioned in iFly
The most "official" publication I found of the TPA=6500' is https://www.faa.gov/bjc "know before you go", but unfortunately these are not handled by iFly
TPA of 6500' is also mentioned in airport's noise abatement plan - https://www.jeffco.us/1694/Fly-Quiet-Program
AOPA's airport information shows it as 6500' as well - https://www.aopa.org/destinations/airports/kbjc/details
And not surprisingly, Foreflight has it displayed correctly too (no screenshot as I don't use FF, but I saw it on my CFI's iPad)
Can we have this corrected for KBJC in iFly?
Chart supplement says nothing about pattern altitude - https://aeronav.faa.gov/afd/22jan2026/sw_342_22JAN2026.pdf - which I assume is why nothing is mentioned in iFly
The most "official" publication I found of the TPA=6500' is https://www.faa.gov/bjc "know before you go", but unfortunately these are not handled by iFly
TPA of 6500' is also mentioned in airport's noise abatement plan - https://www.jeffco.us/1694/Fly-Quiet-Program
AOPA's airport information shows it as 6500' as well - https://www.aopa.org/destinations/airports/kbjc/details
And not surprisingly, Foreflight has it displayed correctly too (no screenshot as I don't use FF, but I saw it on my CFI's iPad)
Can we have this corrected for KBJC in iFly?