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Old 11th January 2002 | 22:16
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Megaton
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Or if you can't be bothered sifting through the pages of info (and with apologies to BEagle from whose post this was cribbed):

STANDARD CLOSING ANGLE
1. Establish your distance off track.
2. Turn towards track by a Standard Closing Angle of 60/(TAS in miles per minute) i.e. 40 deg for a 90KIAS Cherokee, 30 deg for a 120KIAS Bulldog.
3. Hold that heading for the same NUMBER of minutes as you were miles off track , i.e. 3 minutes if you were 3 miles off track.
4. Turn back onto original heading , recheck DI is synch'd and the rudder trim is correctly stopping flight with a constant yaw.
5. Adjust timing by adding 1/3 of the time spent on the Standard Closing Angle at 90KIAS or 10 sec per minute at 120KIAS.
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