erm,actually ,before everyone shoots this instructor down in flames,he has a point.
By pushing down you take the aircraft through the wind gradient,
converting the potential energy you had at altitude to kinetic energy at ground level,minus the headwind component,which in some circumstances will enable you to pull up over the obstacle rather than gliding into it!
It's not the ground effect that helps,but getting out of the headwind!
Last edited by one dot right; 8th February 2005 at 08:21.