In article ,
Nyal Williams wrote:

I suspect that you may be confusing the 'best speed
to cover the most
ground in a headwind' with 'the best speed to make
a safe approach to
landing'.

Tony,

As I read his question it, he was asking for 'best
speed to cover the most ground in a headwind. Actually,
he seemed to confuse the two in the question.

And why earth would you want to know that when you were in the circuit?
You are surely not going to go *that* far downwind that you need best
L/D into wind in order to get back.

The extra speed with wind is to provide extra guard against a tail gust
stalling you (though the +10 knots or *1.3 does a lot of that), but
mostly I think so that and likely wind gradient still leaves you with
flying speed.

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