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PS: This shows my newness. In the above post I said: "Turning downwind to up wind (nose into the wind) will require more up elevator." That is backwards. It will require less because when coming into the wind more lift is created. The plane sometimes will baloon up in a strong wind.
I am new so I can still make mistakes. The point of the post is to assure you all will be ok. Just begin to really watch your plane ans see what it does in different conditions.
You will learn quickly.
Jim
Your airspeed is the same whether flying upwind, downwind or crosswind assuming you do NOT touch the throttle and maintain altitude. If you make your turn using the same bank angle on all turns you will not gain/lose any more altitude on one turn for a given elev position than on any other turn.
That being said most pilots want thier TURN RADIUS's to look similar or symetrical. In other than calm wind conditions this will call for varying bank angles in different turns. During the steeper banked turns you will need more elev to maintain altitude than required in the flatter banked turns. This is caused by the fact that part of the wings lift is generated toward the inside of the turn in the bank and less goes to vertical lift.
There is no more lift going into the wind than when flying downwind.