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What is your threshold for landing (or departing) downwind?  Will you land  
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
	
		 
		
	
	
	knowing you have a 5 knot tailwind? 10 knots? At what point will you "flip" the pattern to takeoff or land into the wind? Me? I'm a 5 knot kind of guy (but I fly a taildragger)... I landed at 3 different fields today where the established pattern resulted in a landing with a quartering 7 knot (or more) tailwind, with some mild gusts thrown in for good measure. At the first field, I was careless enough to assume the traffic was using the runway facing the wind. The downwind landing came as a bit of a surprise, then I looked at the wind sock - oops... At the other two fields, I announced my position and intentions and waited (360's on the downwind) until I could land into the wind without interfering with aircraft already in the pattern. And what is the correct radio phraseology to say: "Fellas, it is time to reverse the pattern - you're taking off and landing downwind.." ?  | 
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