Originally Posted by
Wizofoz
I was a keen Aerobatic plot back in the day. I had an "interesting" conversation with no less than the chief pilot of a major airline, also an Aerobat, who insisted you would get a longer vertical line if you pulled into it downwind, as you had more kinetic energy.
Attempts at explaining frames of reference went no where.
And before anyone pipes in, vertical lines were not supposed to be corrected for wind, the judges were supposed to allow for the fact that you would drift.
If the vertical line was established by bouncing the airplane off a trampoline mounted to the ground at a 45 degree angle...
