Originally Posted by
Luke Owen
genuinely don’t overthink it, it’s as simple as direction of flight is x with crosswind y placing you at z what course should you take to correct, no f=ma etc and very simple velocity questions, nothing that requires breaking out the calculator etc, bit of velocity vs speed which at first caught me off guard but they’re simple numbers
I'm a little confused how you solve this, does this require trigonometry therefore to calculate? Or are you saying: Aircraft is flying heading 360 deg, W crosswind component of 5 degrees. Correct course to maintain is 175 to track 180 - is that the gist of it? I have not done physics in decades, and knowing what they want to assess is proving to be harder than I imagined. Many thanks for your comments on this post Luke!