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Old 8th February 2006 | 20:56
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Do 90 - acute wind angle then use clock analogy to get headwind/tailwind component.

E.g. Track is 180

Wind is 240/30. So 90 - 60 = 30

30, so take half of the windspeed, gets headwind component of 15kts.

Hence, groundspeed for planning on this leg is IAS - 15kts (say 75kts for average GA ac).

To work out fix times, do simple leg distance / groundspeed calc.

E.g 42nm leg = 42/75 x 60 = 36 mins

Then work out proportional distances/times to fixes on the leg, ideally at some good fraction like 1/4 or 1/3 way along.

I don't think you have to bother about temp. differences etc.. on the IAS