{"id":10405,"date":"2026-04-06T23:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/?p=10405"},"modified":"2026-04-07T12:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:51:09","slug":"back-to-basic-series-why-headwind-takeoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/back-to-basic-series-why-headwind-takeoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to basic series: why headwind takeoff?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>4 major reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>lower Groundspeed for takeoff<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>higher directional stability <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>steeper climb angle<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>better change of emergency landing in the event of engine failure after take off (EFATO)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"893\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_5661-893x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_5661-893x1024.jpg 893w, https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_5661-262x300.jpg 262w, https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_5661-768x880.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_5661.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 893px) 100vw, 893px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"88\" src=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/95b7923d-41d8-4eb0-a99f-8749fa8f41cd-729-000000087522eee1_file-300x88.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/95b7923d-41d8-4eb0-a99f-8749fa8f41cd-729-000000087522eee1_file-300x88.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/95b7923d-41d8-4eb0-a99f-8749fa8f41cd-729-000000087522eee1_file.jpg 674w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 major reasons:<a class=\"read-more \" href=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/back-to-basic-series-why-headwind-takeoff\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button default\">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10408,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10405\/revisions\/10408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}