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Old 18th Aug 2010, 14:48
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Chesty Morgan
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A question for the pitch for speed gang.

During an approach you encounter a suddenly increasing tailwind, leading to a loss of airspeed and increased sink what do you do?

- Lower the nose to maintain the speed?
- Increase power to maintain the flight path?
- Crash at high power with a lot of nose down stuff going on?

Please ignore the fact that you might go around if it got too unstable, I'm just curious.
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