Originally posted by mtthomps
Man! You guys are a lot more informed than that other thread I was beating my head against. I was trying to tell them the same thing, but almost everyone was against me!
I went back and read your other posts in the other section. What they were failing to see was the difference between airspeed and ground speed. Lots of people do that. They are "Positive" that the airspeed increases.
I fly the West Wind at 430 knots. One day I had a 286 knot ground speed. on the return leg, the ground speed was over 600 knots. Was really cool. They kept saying I would break the sound barrier. I couldn't make them understand that the plane was moving the same speed through the air.
Most of the problems people have when they turn from upwind to downwind with a model is they keep it at the ref speed they were seeing going into the wind and across the ground, and then they stall the plane.