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Subject: Re: Neat!  Can we do it again?
From: jbolinger@lintek.com (J L Bolinger)
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In article <72s6n6$1386$1@ausnews.austin.ibm.com>, dylanjsmith@hotmail.com 
says...

>The problem happens when you are on a cross country and you run into this.
>Last Christmas, we had some hellacious winds aloft. Unforecast too! A friend
>was visiting so we thought it would be a good idea to fly to Victoria for
>the excellent food at Leo's Food Lot. The winds aloft were a light tailwind
>on the way out (our TAS was around 105 kt, the groundspeed about 110 knots).
>We had lunch and came back. Within this time the winds aloft had picked up a
>bit. About halfway through the trip our groundspeed had decayed to 70 knots
>and now I was using 75% power to get 110 ktas...and this was at 2000 feet
>AGL!
>

What does the wind speed and direction have to do with Ktas?

>The other thing was that our flight path was perpendicular to the runway at
>Houston Gulf, so this meant quite a strong crosswind at the surface needing
>a fair bit of crosswind correction. The approach was going fine (and I was
>mentally patting myself on the back for such a nice crosswind approach) when
>the cantankerous pilot controlled lighting at Houston Gulf decided to turn
>off... right when I was in the flare! Since I could no longer see the runway
>edges to judge my height, I had to go around and do the crosswind approach
>and landing all over again!
>

I take it you don't have a transmit switch on the yoke?

