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Old 11th May 2004, 11:26
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SFI145,
if you are flying along with 100K GS and have a 50 K wind perpendicular to the direction of travel, your TAS will be

sqrt( 100^2 + 50^2 ) = 112 K.

Still, there's no tailwind component.

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Fred
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