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Old 22nd August 2006 | 21:27
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matt_hooks
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Get yourself a flight computer. A CRP-5 or similar allows you to do all those calcs quickly and easily.

Alternatively it's a straight geometric relationship. Just take the sin of the angle between the wind and the heading, call this a.

Call the wind speed x

Now crosswind velocity is x.sina.
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