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On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 08:14:50 -0500, Roy Smith wrote:

On the inbound turn, don't be a slave to making standard-rate turns. If
the CDI is coming in way faster than you expected, speed up the turn.
The alternative is blowing through the FAC and if you do that in a
strong crosswind, you may never manage to claw your way back in time.


Yeah. Steep turns in the clouds is just what an inexperienced IFR
pilot needs.

I'll take going across the course anytime. There's no way a wind is
going to blow an aircraft so far across course that it will be a
serious problem.

I wasn't suggesting 45 degree bank angles, but going to 1.5 standard
rate isn't going to hurt anybody.

Keep in mind that if your outbound heading is 60 degrees off the FAC to
the left and your inbound heading needs to be 30 degrees off in the
other direction, you're making 270 degrees of heading change, which
takes a minute and a half at standard rate.