TRN-07WIND TRIANGLE / DR LEG
Dead reckoning is a vector sum. The wind shoves you sideways; you aim off to cancel it — that aim-off is the wind correction angle. Set course, TAS, and wind: get heading, groundspeed, and enroute time, with the triangle drawn the way an E6B solves it. Heading = course + WCA · GS = TAS·cosWCA + tailwind component.
WCA
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TRUE HEADING
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GROUNDSPEED
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ETE FOR LEG
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VECTOR SOLUTION — NORTH UP, LENGTHS = KNOTS × TIME
LEG DATA