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Old 19th Sep 2001, 05:43
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paulgibson
 
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Vorticey, whilst i agree with your thoughts re any tilting of the disc will require slightly more power, perhaps the less streamlined fuselage that a tailwind meets will create more requirement for power. The other consideration in a crosswind situation is, of course, that a right crosswind will require more power absorbing left pedal (US built heli's!!) to maintain heading and vice-versa. Then we could get into the topic of strong left crosswinds and LTE.....but lets save that for another day.

And to vfrpilot?? (spelling??) yes a B206 will run out of aft cyclic in a tailwind quiet easily, depending on loading etc.
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