While performing turns around a point in a steady wind, to maintain a constant radius the pilot should

Choices

• ✓ use the steepest bank when downwind and shallowest bank when upwind.correct

  Groundspeed is highest when downwind, requiring a steeper bank to maintain constant radius. Groundspeed is lowest upwind, requiring a shallower bank. The bank angle continuously varies through the turn to keep ground track circular despite the wind drift.

• use the steepest bank when upwind and shallowest bank when downwind.

  Reversed — upwind has lower groundspeed and needs SHALLOWER bank.

• maintain a constant bank angle throughout the maneuver.

  Constant bank in wind produces an oval ground track, not a circle.

• vary altitude rather than bank to compensate for wind.

  Altitude is held constant; bank angle is the variable.