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Old 2nd Oct 2012, 22:03
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suninmyeyes
 
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If you are very comfortable with the aircraft and its performance and wish to avoid long distances taxiing it can sometimes be be commercially viable. However for most of us if we get it wrong it might be the end of our career.

Prince Charles tried it in a BAE 146 with a 12 knot tailwind into Islay in 1994....

http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/65F3C...00_29jun94.pdf

Cecco in reply to you question about why a tailwind may be more punitive on a turboprop than on a jet. The only reasons I can think of are jets are better at dumping lift due more effective speedbrakes and a turbo prob has massive disking propellors in ground fine pitch which can act like a sail when slowing down with wind behind.

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