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Old 29th Aug 2014, 00:49
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M1.46? Hmm.

I am about to shoot myself in the foot, I'm sure, but here goes nothing.

Assuming a track of 195 degrees towards Indonesia, surely the speed required in order to make the "horizontal" vector equal 900 Kt would be about 3,477kt?

Turning the problem into a right angle triangle, with the hypotenuse being your track to Indonesia (15 degrees left of South), and the short ("opposite") side being 900kt:

Speed = 900/Sin 15 ?

Edited to add: Of course you could also be on a heading of due south (towards DPS), in which case the speed required would be infinite..



Go ahead: shoot, flame, educate!

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