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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Keith,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've added some flying techniques to my website
that deals with flying in wind. It's written by Don Szczur and would apply
to this. View at <A
href="http://www.cox-internet.com/donramsey">www.cox-internet.com/donramsey</A><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Don</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=tkeithb@comcast.net href="mailto:tkeithb@comcast.net">Keith Black</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=discussion@nsrca.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 09, 2003 9:08
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Cuban Eight in a head wind</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'd like some advice on the best way to perform a
symmetrical Cuban Eight with a strong head wind.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Today I was out practicing and was struggling
with trying to keep the two halves even and the center downlines at 45 deg.
and crossing in the middle. Obviously the wind is pushing the plane back when
going into the first 1/2 Cuban so I know that it is necessary to drive into
the wind, but to do this I need to keep the plane's nose forward for a longer
period of time than normal (on the upline). Then when it's time to come around
for the down wind portion it seems that I have to flip the plane a bit too
abruptly in order to get the 45 deg downline centered before the wind pushes
me back to far. It's at the transition between driving into the wind and
reversing directions that I'm not sure about. Is it acceptable for the plane
to relatively quick go from nose forward to nose backward? If I don't do this
I get blown back to quickly, but doing so doesn't look very graceful. Also, in
doing this it's hard to keep the loop perfectly round through
5/8ths.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When going into the second 1/2 Cuban after
completing the centered downline I want to make the 5/8th loop nice and
smooth, but if I don't pull pretty hard at the bottom of the downline and get
the nose pointing up then backwards the wind will take me too far down field.
This pull up does not look as smooth as I think it should and for a long time
I practiced it with a smooth pull up and would go to far down field.
To keep the halves even, left to right, I have to pull
much more than is visually appealing. Of course, by doing this is also looks
like I'm pinching the bottom loop but in reality the loop is probably more
even than it looks. I'm just concerned that this approach does not look very
good and may end up getting downgraded. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any advice or comments would be
appreciated.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Keith Black</FONT></DIV>
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