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Old 31st Mar 2012, 23:02
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Jabawocky
 
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It's all fun in theory until you take off into a 10+ knot headwind or crosswind.
Head/tail or crosswind, makes no difference. YOU need to adjust for what you have on the day. A 10 knot headwind might not allow you to make that turf farm off the end of the runway if your failure is at 200' and not 300'

Perhaps a 10 knot crosswind from the right helps you get that horse training track to the 10 o'clock.

Part of the things CC and I learned the day we made that video, was that from 500' with a gentle headwind, was we would crash into the fence at the far end of RWY24. So I could slip a bit onve the runway was assured, I could land in the longer grass off the edge of the runway area, I could zig zag a little, but running into the fence at the far end of the strip trumps all the other alternatives by a country mile

Think about this stuff, fly with a capable instructor or mentor and try the performance of your regular type, and Know your aeroplane.
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