wrote:

boy this group has changed unfortunately since i last checked it out.
what happened? where are the students? where's the V speed questions?

Probably over in rec.aviation.student?

tailwind landings... i read in aopa flight training an article that said
that deflection is different in quartering tailwind while taxiing and
while on short final. again, both quartering tailwind situations but one
while taxiing and one on short final. what do you do on final?

Dunno about anyone else, but I fly the plane. As far as the plane is concerned,
there's no such thing as a quartering tailwind when you're in the air. When I'm
on final, my plane is traveling at 65 mph through the air. That's all it "knows",
and that's all that matters.

That said, I won't be landing my Maule with a tailwind, quartering or otherwise.

George Patterson
Love, n.: A form of temporary insanity afflicting the young. It is curable
either by marriage or by removal of the afflicted from the circumstances
under which he incurred the condition. It is sometimes fatal, but more
often to the physician than to the patient.