Originally Posted by
A Squared
No, that absolutely is not the same as you are saying. He is talking about changing wind components when flying across wind velocity gradients, in other words, when the wind is changing relative to itself, a non constant, non uniform wind. You are talking about flying in a uniform, constant wind, where no wind gradients exist ...yet somehow through maneuvering the airplane causing a tailwind. That is something completely different than what he's talking about.
I think this rather exposes the fact that he really doesn’t understand the basics of aerodynamics. He talks about drift angle, which is obviously only in reference to the ground and then claims it’s having an aerodynamic effect. It’s like he can’t understand that there are two completely different frames of reference here, the ground frame of reference and that of the airmass.