Question

Help please

Answer 1

The angle between the heading and course of a ship is called the angle of drift.
Find the angle of drift of an airplane with air speed 240 km/hr on heading 90 degrees in a 65 km/hr wind in the direction 0 degrees. Find the ground speed of the airplane.

Answer 2

"airplane with air speed 240 km/hr on heading 90 degrees"

Answer 3

"in a 65 km/hr wind in the direction 0 degrees"

Answer 4

what is x?

Answer 5

248.646

Answer 6

yes

Answer 7

so without the wind, the plane would travel 240 km/hr

with the wind's help, the plane is actually travelling 248.646 km/hr

Answer 8

and it drifts towards the northeast direction

to actually fly north, the plane would have to aim in the northwest direction to have the resultant vector be true north

Answer 9

of course, it's exaggerated so you can see the difference in the vectors but often the difference is so small I don't think it's easily noticeable

Answer 10

I see

Answer 11

That makes sense

Answer 12

Is the ground speed the speed without the wind?