In article ,
Chris Wells wrote:

Suggest you take a look at this
site.www.aeroexperiments.org/brainteasers.shtml

This site, while useful for those having difficulty with the concept
of different frames of reference, is actually wrong. Downwind turns ARE
different, though perhaps only for ultralights and other light aircraft
in the real world.

Don't believe me? Try hang gliding. When you circle, you can usually
feel which way the wind is blowing. When I first discovered this, it
took me a while to figure out what was happening. I might have had
difficulty believing if someone else had told me this, but I couldn't
deny personal experience.

I'm sorry, but the only reason turns feel like that in a hang-glider is
proximity/reference to the ground.


I'll see if anyone else knows, or can figure out, why this is true
before I explain further...

--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
"If you raise the ceiling four feet, move the fireplace from that wall
to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect if you
sit in the bottom of that cupboard."