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Old 9th Nov 2017, 16:21
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FCeng84
 
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Wind Calculations

Try this:

Wind component along airplane heading:
Vground * cos(crab angle) - Vtas

Wind component across airplane heading:
Vground * sin(crab angle)

Total Wind velocity:
Take the square root of the sum of the squares of the two above

Difference between airplane heading and wind angle:
Take the inverse tangent of the cross component divided by the along airplane heading component. (Always sanity check to make sure it makes sense by drawing your triangle picture.)

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