How to get wind from drifting?
I am not a real pilot and I just fly on PCs. This is my first thread here, so I hope I chose the right sub-forum.
My question revolves around getting wind direction and magnitude at a fixed cruising altitude from observed drifting.
Scenario:
I takeoff from point A, fly for 25 minutes on indicated heading 200°, altimeter is 4500 feet, indicated airspeed 100 knots, following a radio beacon on heading and expecting first visual fix being a red house at 50 nauticals dead ahead. Now after 30 minutes of flying, I notice that the supposed red house is to my right hand at 2 o'clock, about 3 nautical miles, while radio beacon is solid on the 200° bearing. To make matters worse, an updraft hit my plane and the weather briefing flew out the window (non-existent). Now I need to get this calculated. And look, the cloud base rose up to 4000 feet. Now I can't see anything.
In the back of my head, the red house which was supposed to be on my nose, now is on heading 260° at 3 nm after 30 minutes.
How to do it?