Originally Posted by
Mojo31
Curious, when you are flying do you have to be going faster than the wind speed when flying down wind in order to not stall (or whatever you would call it) and avoid falling to the ground?
Huh. I’ve never given that a thought before. There would still be air going over the wings, so life would be created, but probably not enough lift to sustain flight so you would descend. Stalling is only relative to angle of attack. This is making my head hurt.
Gliders land with tailwinds.
Back in my CFI days my favorite thing to do was slow flight in high winds. We would be at about 56-57 knots into a 70 knot head wind and fly back wards, I would then retract the flaps while keeping the back pressure and allow the wing to drop. It was fun, for me at least.