Colin, you adopt quite the air of authority for someone who has had their
ASEL for less than 2.5 years. In this case I wanted to come in at about
80kts and one notch because of the wind shear, which is not a normal
approach speed or flap configuration for me. Are you telling me you have
memorized every permutation of pitch/power/flaps/airspeed for all possible
gust conditions on approach?

"Colin W Kingsbury" wrote in message
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"Jeremy Lew" wrote in message
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In my case, it was a CAVU day but extremely windy and quite turbulent.
It
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was nice to be able to know I was nowhere near the stall by adding 25 to
my
GPS groundspeed.

OTOH, here comes the broken record again, trimming for pitch attitude and
setting power for the chosen regime of flight *will* produce a known
airspeed. In my Skyhawk if you set one notch of flaps and 1900rpm and trim
for level flight, the speed will stabilize around 72kts. Pull 500rpm and
trim nose up one full turn and you'll descend at just about 500fpm at 72
kts. 2350 and level will always indicate 95-100kts. Climb is of course
whatever you can get with full throttle and 10deg nose up. This is the Law
of the Wing: it has ever been thus, and thus it ever shall be.