I see that you have moved "houses" ! I posted a reply to your previous in Flight Testing but was nadgered (I think) by AOL (see posting Computer/Internet issues).
Sooo... I say again - This issue has been around a LONG time. It was heavily written about in the early sixties in "Air Clues". Lots of highly articulate hypotheses with more lift,drag and thrust arrows than one could shake the proverbial stick at, plus wind vectors ad nauseam. If memory serves me correctly, it was finally nailed by a chap from Boscombe Down who added the magic ingredient INERTIA ! His theory was that inertia relates to the earth mass not to the 'packet of air' in which you are flying. To maintain this inertia, when turning downwind in strong winds, requires a strong nose-down pitch input and this might be somewhat unnatural to a light aircraft pilot who would be likely to be flying to visual, rather than instrument, cues. The original articles would probably have long since disappeared but you never know.
