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Old 1st February 2017 | 12:23
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If your flying at the nominated climb speed there is absolutely no way that a wind variation is going to make the aircraft enter the translation zone.
I entirely agree. Both in the context of helicopter and airplane.

But, is that to extend the logic backward to an aircraft being [foolishly] flown at a much slower speed through the same maneuver? (Which I was doing in the SW300, at the time I was reprimanded).

The risk I see, and train against, is that of the pilot who has already made a poor choice about entering a turn which less than a full pocket of performance, and fails to make allowance for additional factors which may further degrade their aircraft's capabilities....
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