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08-20-2013, 04:31 AM

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I find it helpful to make a few landing passes 20-30 feet up in unfamiliar wind just so I know what the plane needs. Your plane probably lands with a 15 mph airspeed, so going from 10 mph wind to calm increases your ground speed by triple.

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