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Well, I've always been taught to make the transition to 45 degrees more
defined. The idea is to turn just before the landing area disappears from view. This allows you to always see where you want to go and helps to prevent you from going so far downwind that you won't get over the boundary. Keeping the landing zone in view allows you to more accurately judge if you are too close or too far out (and make appropriate corrective actions) and also to see if anyone is ahead of you in the circuit and/or in your landing zone. Robin In message , Graeme Cant writes No. It's more like this: ------ -------- ------ ---- -- - - - - - ---------------------------- The base leg blends into downwind. Graeme Cant Mark James Boyd wrote: Bruce Hoult wrote: 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. Apparently this is a significant cause of crashes (undershot landing from overshot downwind). On another subject, can someone describe the 45/V type approach that I've heard is used in some countries? Is it like this? -------------------------------\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ / / / / / ----------------- | / | | / | | | / The Runway | --+----| ----/ | | | | | ----------------- | -- ------------+ Mark J. Boyd -- Robin Birch |
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