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Wind indication

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By Rico - 4/6/2015 12:48:38 PM

While climbing to 10000 ft, I remembered that I could see the actual wind in right hand corner.
The last few flights i saw that the windindication disapeared when I was climbing through 2600 ft.and was replaced by a cross.
q. Is this the actual wind calculated by the GPS.
     do I need to insert a route to get the actual wind, is this correct?

I like to use this windinfo to pass this on to the sky-divers i fly.
By ckurz7000 - 4/13/2015 2:17:13 PM

Rico (4/13/2015)
Thank you very much.
On airliners the GPS gives all the time the actual winds ( if you ask for it.)



That is because the GPS also has information from the onboard compass and thus knows about the heading as well as the track over ground. It also has airspeed information in addition to GPS derived speed over ground.

-- Chris.