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Old 11-23-2010 | 12:56 PM
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Default RE: Downwind turn Myth

states that the laws of physics are the same for all observers in uniform motion relative to one another.
Yes and true.

In other words F=MA (force = mass x acceleration) from Newton's Second Law of Motion on Earth, from a fixed point, and relative to the wind are indeed all the same.
Incorrect and contradicts the former statement.  F=MA from a moving body of air, and F=MA from a fixed point, and from the earth are not the same.  The differ by the amounts the bodies are moving.  Therefore the inertia of a plane turning in the air is completly resolved by the G-Force created from the bank and does not make any differance in headwind.  F=MA relative to the ground is differant, the differance being the windspeed.  Differances from inertia of wind gusts was conceeded long ago.