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Old 6th Feb 2018, 14:17
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scifi
 
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Having been the Navigator in a Rally Car, I soon got to realise that where the bonnet was pointing was not necessarily the direction we were traveling... The old joke was that you cleaned the side windows so that you could see where you were going.
It is exactly the same with flying in a crosswind. If you have 10 degrees of drift, then you are not going where the prop-spinner is pointing... More likely it coincides with the pillar on the left, or the edge of the bonnet to the right. So look for landmarks in either of those directions to aim at, and fly over.
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