Originally Posted by
SeaFairer1442
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!
They know that any real calculation takes time so it was even simpler than that in sense of their use of values of crosswind being easy fractions say half that of the forward airspeed so looking at say 22.5 degree adjustment (NNE for example) or if you have 100 miles to cover heading 180 @ x kts with a y crosswind how far E or W would you be offset, again they use easy numbers, I don’t want to commit to an example or wording as I’m sure they pull a lot out of a question pool and there’s nothing worse than thinking you know what there going to mean and it’s different but honestly just sort of read the question, visualise it and you’ll most likely see an answer to tick that matches what you think in your head, there was questions on numerical vectors (velocity vs speed)too but read them carefully as they again know there’s no time for real calcs so the answer will be in the wording they just want to see you know what they mean