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Old 4th Jan 2012, 06:38
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Da-20 monkey
 
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If you really want to, you can draw the situation with the air and wind vector on scale, with a protractor. Than you can draw the ground vector and measure its angle and length, to get drift angle and groundspeed. This can also be calculated with the law of sinuses or cosinuses.

This is completely useless Don't do it. I cannot imagine that you would need to calculate this stuff for a selection process or something. Navigation is not an exact science.
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