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Thanks for pointing this out. Typo of neighboring keys. It's F=M*A. I like any discussion that is to the point not just saying "trust me, I am right".

If you cross a river crabbing so you cross the river in a right angle and then you decide to give up crabbing and go downstream, for sure everyone in the boat will feel the acceleration from 0 mph downstream to the rivers speed plus the boat's speed. To give again the example where my logic...

The way I see it is that there is a difference between people claiming the effect doesn't exist by laws of physics (which I oppose) or the effect doesn't matter in practice when all is good (which I also experience as a pilot but I am not flying my base to final turn stalled in high winds and...

If you fly the pattern, you are not "traveling with the air mass" you are flying a straight line with ground reference. You are actually holding against the traveling air masses.

OK, deal, my next flight is to a pretty windy area.

Misunderstanding of what I was trying to say. I was referring to "turning downwind" rather than making a circle into the medium air. "Turning downwind" is when you turn from base to final. You are flying a pattern which is based on ground reference. Totally different physical case than making a...

What I am referring to is inertia (V=M*A). If you fly a square pattern and crab on your cross wind you have no velocity in the direction of the wind. If you then turn downwind, you need to accelerate the plane in the direction of the wind. Until your plane has reached wind speed plus relative...

In most postings of this thread, there is a big misunderstanding of plain physics! Yes, the plane flies in air and generally / eventually everything is relative to air. However, when it comes to acceleration of the mass of the airplane only the reference to ground matters!!! The moment the plane...