Sorry I don't know your name, 2G, nor do I know where you fly, and I'm
not trying to get into a ****ing contest. But let me offer you this:
Should you ever come to Moriarty or I come to wherever you are, let's
fly my Stemme together and demonstrate our patterns to each other. Then
we can laugh about it over a beer. Keyboards and time delays do make
for too much acrimony!

On 8/1/2016 7:07 PM, 2G wrote:
3. I don't see how you can judge wind speed and direction in a descending turn; flying a stabilized base leg gives a far better feel because you can visually see your crab angle. Same thing goes for the final approach.

I'll only reply to the above statement hopefully to explain but it's so
much easier to demonstrate. You can judge wind velocity during a turn
by your drift across the ground at low altitude. Then small corrections
can be made to fly the necessary ground track to arrive at the desired
location. Check it out next time you're thermalling down low.


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Dan, 5J