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2nd Feb 2017, 20:56

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Originally Posted by paco

Basic mountain flying - headwinds turn into tailwinds all the time = loss of airspeed.

It is also very common for jetliners to encounter wind variations from MMO to Vs1g. There is no easy way out of this.

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