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Old 13th Aug 2009, 12:45
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Capt Pit Bull
 
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Wind on landing, 30'deg of centerline at 20 kts
When I asked what the wind was doing, I meant aloft. Its pretty key really.

Your radius of turn relates to V^2, so flying 205 instead of 180 is going to tend to put you through the centreline, but as long as you track accuratley outbound and maintain your bank angle around the turn you'd probably be only slightly through and it would be correctable.

If you had say 30 knots blowing across the pattern, (i.e. tightening your turn) you'd be golden.

But if you had 30 knots the otherway, you'd be really struggling, and some sort of compromise of outbound tracking / speed / bank angle would be needed.

Its all about crosswind really.

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