SurClaro Flight Simulator Resources

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 4:04 am Post subject: Crosswinds

How exactly do you know you are flying in crosswind?
Its not always obvious from inside the 2d cockpit or the vc

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 4:16 am Post subject: you could...

You could press shift+z once to bring up the flight info. It will be a line of text at the top of your FS screen. When you press shift+z again, the info will be the calculated frames per second (that's right, the inbuilt fps counter is not absolute and does suffer a bit of lag). Press shift+z a third time and both lines of info text will be displayed. To turn it off you press.......anybody?......that's right....shift+z. Now you try it, I know you can do it, make us proud Cool

And the connection to your question is that the winds data is at the right hand end of the flight info text. The alternative is to install a wind indicator in your panel.

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:16 am Post subject: Try this

BlackAlpha,

Most Medium and heavy aircraft tell you how fast and in which direction the wind is blowing on the display somewhere. If your aircraft doesn't, you can watch your HSI . Assuming that all control surfaces on the aircraft are centered, you will be able to tell which way the wind is blowing when you see your heading moving one way or the other.

The tricky part is to figure out what effect the wind has on the aircraft. Does a wind from right to left make the aircraft veer to the right or to the left??? Use the shift+z key that GroundSquirrel told you about to try and figure it out...

Bromster.
p.s. Remember that if your wind is : 090 at 28knots , it means that the wind is blowing FROM east to west.