Kikapu wrote:Paphitis wrote:...and if there is a Nuclear Meltdown, it would once again be put on Ruzzia because the forecast westerly winds are likely to blow the Radiation fallout over Ukraine, into Moldova, Poland, Germany and Scandinavia.
And since when does Merika do such false flag operations, besically rendering vasts ammounts of territory blonging to its allies and NATO as uninhabitable for thousands of years.
You have just defeated your own argument, and as a pilot, I am shocked that you do not know which direction Westerly Winds blow, and as someone who has thousands of miles of Ocean sailing, I can tell you that Westerly Winds do not blow in the direction of the West, but it blows from the West to the East direction!
Without looking at the map, guess which country lies East of Ukraine?
Seconds thought, do look at the map as you are likely to get it wrong again!
Yes you are correct. And I do know which direction a westerly blows. And which way an Easterly blows. I made a mistake because I had West on my mind. That is where the radiation will blow towards more than likely, if a meltdown occurs, because Ruzzia will radiate Western Europe. In which case, they would need an Easterly Wind. And make no mistake about it, if this meltdown occurs, the Ruzzians will be waiting for that perfect Easterly. But the West will likely respond as this should be regarded as a Nuclear attack on NATO.
In aviation, wind direction isn't quite as important to us as it would be for sailing. We only use average winds which are sourced from median Grid Point Sectors, and Route Sector winds. These are median winds that cover a vast area. And if you look at our Significant WX maps, they look like mud maps drawn by a preschooler. Our charts have no detail other than NAVAIDS, MORSE Idents, coordinates, LSALTs, Distances, Sector Entries, Radio Frequency Changes, HF Radio Comms and so on. They are blank otherwise.
And the biggest thing is that we fly radials. That would stuff you up because you will be 180 degrees off on the inbound track. When you fly into a military aerodrome, you are asked to fly in on a particular radial for radar identification. A 030 radial, can be a track of 210. Picture that when ATC tells you to fly radial 000 which translates to a Track of 180. Over your heads I know. Robin Hood would know because he can fly on instruments with a Night VFR
We only need the wind to calculate our fuel and sector times.
You would be familiar with Dead Reckoning Navigation. Well, under the IFR, we can deviate of course on a SID by 100 or more nautical miles. At that point, the headings we have on a Flight Plan are useless. We get vectored and sometimes re-cleared to another waypoint for either track shortening, or to delay our arrival at a destination to achieve a particular slot time on Finals.
And it is incredibly automated. To calculate drift, we look at trends and adjust the HDG Hold. And just follow the Magenta Line. If of track, we will make a small adjustment to close in, then adjust to maintain. All done on the HDG Hold dial. That's if we are trying to maintain a track. But half the time we are maintaining an assigned vector or heading.
We hardly even bother working out drift these days. Most of the time we fly Track = HDG - which is what you do in nil wind and then apply arbitrary drift such as 5 degrees left or right and then just look at our silhouette in relation to the magenta line.
Because I am a child of the Maagenta Line.