>Orma, He is stating that if you land on the downwind edge of the runway >and cross to the upwind edge by the time you stop, then you have >changed your runway direction by a few degrees.
Exactly. Take, for example, the main runways at Laredo International, where I did most of my early training. Those are 150' wide. If you need (say, for example) 1000 ft. of runway for taking off or landing, the difference between a straight line down the runway centerline and a diagonal line corner-to-corner into the wind is a difference of about 9 degrees... and can be used to advantage. Oscar Zuniga San Antonio, TX mailto: taildr...@hotmail.com website at http://www.flysquirrel.net
