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Old 5th Feb 2006, 06:20
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Not so.

Max drift occurs when the wind direction is at 90 deg to the track and is calculated from the ratio of TAS and wind speed - all the 'clock factor' for the proportion of max drift to use for the actual difference between wind direction and track is doing is approximating the front face of the computer by using 1in60 values rather than exact trigonometrical values.

Perhaps you're thinking of SCA correction?
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