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Old 26th November 2005 | 20:58
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the coyote
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MK10 I disagree. The wind as you say is more important for a torque turn, as you will have zero airspeed and be in a nose down attitude when you terminate the turn, so you don't want to be downwind and close to the ground like this.

You do a wingover because you want to turn around as quickly as possible, whilst maintaining translational lift. Your in an ag machine for example well above any HOGE performance weight so you need to keep airspeed.

A wingover tightens the radius (& the time) of the turn by reducing speed, and there is no huge time benefit in reducing speed below translational lift or even 20-30KT in my opinion.

Convert your excess speed to height and then as you progress through the turn convert that height back to speed. The more you reduce your speed, the tighter the turn radius will be.

If you don't slow below 20-30KT, then it doesn't matter so much where the wind is.
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