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Old 12th May 2004, 14:44
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100 - 112 = -22 or 112 - 100 = -22
Good to see you corrected those signs, ft

If you are flying a sixty knot TAS aircraft, and you want to go north, but there is a sixty knot wind from the west, do you have a sixty knot crosswind, or a sixty knot headwind?
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