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Old 24th February 2014 | 17:53
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Whiskey Kilo Wanderer
 
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Sixths

One cheap and cheerful method is to assume the cross wind component is one sixth of the wind value for every ten degrees off the runway heading.

At thirty degrees you have three sixths, or a half of the wind speed, pretty much as mentioned above.

Anything over sixty degrees off runway heading and you can assume that it's all cross wind.
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