Originally Posted by
A Squared
That's gonna be tough. No dealings with the CAA but I would bet long odds that I could easily find FAA inspectors who believe in the downwind turn myth.
Richard Collins, editor of the US Flying magazine was a believer, writing articles about it.
Another of his mantras was that if a modification meant an engine delivered more power, it MUST increase fuel burn.
"Efficiency" was apparently a foreign concept to him.