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    As Charlie Kohler and I found out when we were testing my first ES, you
need to add altitude above the field to compensate for a headwind on final.
Wind speeds here are typically 15 to 18 knots in the afternoons (at ground
level -- probably higher as you go up), and after coming up short on two or
three tries at a circle-to-land emergency drill starting at 2000' AGL, we
finally tried starting at 3000' AGL and it came out just fine.   I'm sure
there's a nice formula hiding in there somewhere, but probably just adding
1000' for winds over 10 knots would work OK.  The problem in all of this, of
course, is that you have to have enough altitude and glide distance to
arrive over an airport in the proper position.  Unfortunately, that's not
always the way things work out.

Jim Cameron
Port Aransas, Texas, America's REALLY windy city (well, town, village,
whatever).

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