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Old 17th May 2007, 19:50
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Surely it is simply due to the increased drag that you get when you turn that slows you down, assuming that you didn't loose any airspeed due this your IAS would remain the same no matter what the wind is doing, and anyway surely it is almost impossible to quantify or prove that airspeed is lost in a turn due to the wind, given that you would lose speed in an abrupt turn anyway.
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