Dead reckoning and the wind triangle
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The wind triangle
Three vectors: the aircraft through the air (heading and TAS), the wind, and the result over the ground (track and ground speed). The angle between heading and track is the drift; to fly a track you steer into the wind by the wind correction angle.
IN THIS LESSON
- Rules of thumb
- Speed, time and distance
- Fuel
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