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Old 09-09-2015, 05:29 PM
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George
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Originally Posted by Lownverted
Quoting my own post from January of last year:

I've already done exactly this! I fly UAV's for a living. By nature they navigate via GPS waypoints (ground reference manuvers!) and are very highly instrumented! When turning downwind to final, or upwind to downwind, (our wind limits are 35 kts, which I've flown in many times) there is no change in IAS, ground speed changes of course, but not indicated. Your argument has no credibility. I have telemetry files to back it up.

Once again you are not grasping the issue at hand here, microbursts are NOT steady state wind, which is what this thread is about.
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And mine is not a quad either, but a 500 pounder.