Originally Posted by
pineteam
Hi Wizofoz,
Thanks for your reply.
Well not really since by analogy your track is like the bridge over the river. Regardless of the wind velocity, the aircraft relative to the ground keeps the exact same path if flying at at constant track. Only the nose will veer more or less towards the wind to compensate for the crosswind component.
You're walking with a crab angle nosed into where the leaves are coming from, such that they're coming at you straight onto your nose. Up in the air, there's no bridge in the sky to see a sideways motion relative to.
Think if those clouds contained liquid drops and you flew into one, would they leave water streaks sideways on the windscreen or straight down it?