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Old 24th Jul 2009, 22:49
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Originally Posted by Bates106
I have heard many different names and different ways of calculating it, post your name and your way of calculating it: when your track is 090 degrees and there is a wind at 11 knots from the North, and your flying at a speed of 100mph, what is your heading with the wind and still gonna end up at the destination!
I think Bates is asking this;

Track 090; Wind 360/11; TAS 100.

I use the CR-3 (less pencil markings required than the E6B).

Your heading will be 084 and groundspeed 100.

As for a name for this method?
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