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During a rectangular course flown clockwise with a north wind, on the eastbound leg you should crab
Choices
✓ into the north wind (northward).correct
On the eastbound leg with a wind from the north (a left crosswind for an eastbound aircraft), the airplane will be drifted south. A wind correction angle to the LEFT (into the wind, i.e., northward) maintains the desired ground track parallel to the boundary.
away from the wind (southward).
Crabbing south worsens the drift, not corrects it.
directly with the wind track (no correction).
No correction allows wind to drift the aircraft off track.
10° left of course only on the downwind leg.
Wind correction is required throughout, not only on one leg.
Why
On the eastbound leg with a wind from the north (a left crosswind for an eastbound aircraft), the airplane will be drifted south. A wind correction angle to the LEFT (into the wind, i.e., northward) maintains the desired ground track parallel to the boundary.
FAA source: AFH Ch 6 — Ground Reference Maneuvers; AFH Chapter 6 — Ground Reference Maneuversbrowse the reference library →
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