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Old 05-19-2006 | 02:52 PM
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Default RE: What wind speed do you perfer?

A lot that determines what a flyer is comfortable depends a lot on where they learn to fly. Case in point, the winds that you say you normally fly in are a calm day for us here in Oklahoma. Normal flying days have wind 10-20 mph. 25 mph will usually kill a day. But I've flown in wind 30 mph before too. In fact, on calm days I sometimes have a hard time landing. I'm used to having the wind slow my plane down on landing approach, so the days that the wind isn't blowing I usually end up overshooting the runway!!

Ken