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8th Nov 2001, 05:39

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Is this any use?

I found this in an older text and cannot say I've used it but:
let WA = Wind direction - Course
let WS be wind speed
let TAS = True Air Speed

then Wind Correction = ARC Sin ( sin (WA) * WS/TAS)

rgds
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