Originally Posted by
dabigboy
This may help: imagine the plane flying on a calm day. Now the earth mysteriously starts spinning faster, but the air does not change. No thinking person could imagine the airplane instantly changing its flight behavior just because the earth below it (which it is not touching) has changed speed.
That's what the downwind turn folks have trouble dealing with. The fact their plane is already flying through a body of air spinning around at nearly 1000mph and it just so happens the surface of the Earth is keeping pace.
When those two speeds don't match up, their planes start to fall out of the sky when they perform a turn???