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Old 24th August 2007 | 16:43
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It has been a looong time since I did this trick, but I think you need to scale the head/tail wind opposite what you would think. If it is a headwind scale DOWN from the center of th RMI needle, scale the cross wind into the wind, then "tie" the two points together.

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