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downwind leg
- Definição1
- A flight path in the traffic pattern parallel to the landing runway in the direction opposite to landing.
- Fonte1
- KUMAR, Bharat (ed.). An illustrated dictionary of aviation. New York: McGraw-Hill, c2005. 752 p.
- Fonte2
- FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION. Helicopter flying handbook (FAA-H8083-21A). Washington, DC: FAA, 2012.
- Fonte3
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. Annex 14 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation: aerodromes: volume 1: aerodrome design and operation. 8th ed. Montreal, 2018. (Annex 14).
- Contexto
- Fly the downwind leg (item 3) parallel to the runway at the designated traffic pattern altitude and distance from the runway.
- The location and number of circling guidance lights should be adequate to enable a pilot, as appropriate, to: a) join the downwind leg or align and adjust the aircraft’s track to the runway at a required distance from it and to distinguish the threshold in passing.
- Subárea1
- Air Traffic
- Related Term
- upwind leg
- Português
- perna do vento
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