That measure distance is the wind speed we’re looking for in our answer, a wind direction at approximately 110˚ and a wind speed of around 19 knots. It’s roughly at 110˚ and if I slide this down just to make the math a little bit easier to about 100 knots here, I could easily see them at the wind speed which would be this distance is 19 knots greater than our center point.
We notice now that this wind dot is straight up in our wind direction under the true index. In this case, I will simply rotate the E6B until the wind dot is straight up. Now what we can do is determine what the direction and speed of the wind would be.
So what I’m going to do is make our wind dot and we’re going to place it where that 10 intersects this 85 airspeed. So our wind correction angle to the right of 10˚ is going to be here and 85 knots of true is going to be this curve between 80 and 90. As we recall from before, our wind correction angle was 10˚ to the right and we know from the question that our true airspeed was 85 knots. Our wind dot though is going to be found at the intersection of our wind correction angle and our true airspeed line. In this case, our ground speed was 95 knots so as you see here, we have about 95 knots under this center mark and then what we’re going to do is we’re going to make our wind dot. Next, we’re going to slide this up until our ground speed is under center. Our true course in this case, is 345˚ so as you see here, I’ve rotated 345˚ under our true index. Starting from the end, we’re going to set this up by having our True Course under our True Index. In order to do this, we’re basically going to follow the normal steps that are listed for the wind side of E6B and reverse-engineer it and sort of do it backwards.
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We already know approximately what this wind will be, but to figure out exactly what it will be, we’re going to switch over to the E6B and walk through exactly how to calculate the wind direction and speed. So, it’s a wind that must be coming from a direction kind of from the East South East like this. What that means then, is we must have a wind that is A) coming from the right side which is why we need the wind correction angle to the right and B) kind of coming from our tail. This means that there’s some kind of wind that’s sort of pushing us from behind that’s making our ground speed faster. Okay, we can also tell from the information they provided that our Ground Speed is 95 knots and our True Airspeed was 85, meaning our ground speed was about 10 knots faster than our true airspeed. That angle between the nose of our airplane and the course we’re trying to fly, that’s known as the Wind Correction Angle and in this example we see that our wind correction angle is about 10˚ and it’s 10˚ to the right of the course. Now what we can see just from this starting point is we can see that there’s an angular difference between this true course and this true heading. So, what I’ll do is I’ll draw our airplane kind of along this track and we’ll say that our airplane is facing a true heading of 355˚. What that means is in order for our airplane to fly along this track our nose is going to have to be pointed in the direction of 355˚. Then it tells us we have a true heading of 355˚. We have this true course, so let’s say we have a starting point and we have an ending point and if I draw the course that connects those, that course is the true course of approximately 345˚. To do that, we’re going to start by drawing this out a little bit. To start, we want to get a basic understanding of exactly what’s happening with the information they’ve provided us. True airspeed is 85 knots | Ground speed is 95 knots. True course is 345˚ | True heading is 355˚ So, let’s pull up that question from the test bank: To help us learn how to use this E6B, we’re going to use an example problem from the FAA knowledge test bank. Today we are going to learn how to use the E6B specifically to calculate wind direction and speed. How to Use an E6B Flight Computer for Unknown Wind – Video Transcript
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