Originally Posted by
Brercrow
Nothing new here Its the same force that makes your groundspeed increase when you turn downwind and decrease when you turn upwind
No, not at all where he is coming from. In his rather daft opinion, a headwind increases the speed of the relative wind (airspeed). This is a newbie/layman's mistake, I hear this spoken and see it written all the time, it's a pet hate of mine. He's taken the fact that a takeoff into wind is useful and turned it into a gain in lift whenever you point into wind in free flight. He's an idiot.
The CAA and FAA should do more to dispel this BS. Apparently this guy is/was an instructor with CAA certification. How many more jokers like him out there then?