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Heading Correction for Crosswind

Started by GrahamP, March 15, 2011, 01:04:05 PM

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GrahamP

Hi Tim,

Thanks very much for the update.  :)

Unless I doing something wrong, I think the calculation to correct the heading for a crosswind only works correctly for the default 100 knots airspeed.

When there is a crosswind, changing the airspeed should change the heading correction.  What I'm seeing in Plan-G is that changing the airspeed from the default 100 knots does not change the heading correction for the crosswind (it only changes the time).

This is with v2.0.5.492.  I don't know if this was the same in the previous versions.

Regards
Graham

tim arnot

Thanks Graham. The calculation isn't wrong, it's just not being recalculated when you change the airspeed. I'll fix it, but in the mean time the workaround is to do something that changes the plan, which will force a recalc (reverse it twice is usually the easiest thing).

Tim. @TimArnot

GrahamP