I am certainly glad to see this nipped in the bud before it detracts from more important topics, like AMA, which airplane should I buy, etc. Obviously, the way to prevent the effects of the dreaded downwind turn is...(wait for it)...don't turn! Problem solved. A friend of mine once took off in his full-size Cub in about a thirty-plus knot ground level breeze, climbed to several hundred feet, throttled back, and backed up the length of the runway, chopped the throttle, did a vertical approach and landed, completing a flight without making a turn. Also, once in a spirited discussion about same topic, I half-kiddingly posed the hypothetical case thusly: if you were in a motorboat going up a river and made a turn and started going downstream, would the boat sink? The sputtering lasted for several minutes! Jim