But wind does not affect TAS nor Mach number.
I don't see how wind could affect RAT, unless you are on the ground, of course.
Only way to warm up in flight is increasing Mach and or descending to a warmer level.
Or I missed something in the question.
Regarding the windchill effect on a body, it increases the rate at which the bodie's temperature decreases, but not the final temperature that it will reach. If there is kinetic heating, this temperature is higher than in still air, of course. As MSF says.
By the way, I think that human body perception for heat or cold is rather of heating or cooling rate. If you get into a swimmingpool at 20ºC you feel cold. But if you get into the same water just after getting out of a 10ºC water, you can even feel heat, for a while. Getting out of a warm swimmingpool, say 35º, in a hotter air, say 45ºC should mean you feel hotter, but if humidity is very low and there is wind, you actually feel cold... At 45ºC!
The human body has a limit in its ability to maintain a safe temperature, I guess. If it cools or heats too fast, its temperature will go beyond limit. So it is a natural alarm.
Dersu Uzala wonderful movie comes to my mind...
Last edited by Microburst2002; 3rd Nov 2009 at 17:50.