Crosswind Groundspeed Pilot 
Northstar VFR
MARCH 30, 2025
Turns Around a Point This is a classic maneuver that helps pilots learn how to maintain a constant radius around a point on the ground while compensating for the wind. Begin a turn around the point, keeping asteepest bank angleon the downwind, where your groundspeed is highest. Pro tip: Watch your airspeed vs groundspeed.
Pilot Institute
JUNE 9, 2025
Holding procedures often leave many prospective IFR pilots in a cold sweat. Pilots use holds for traffic delays, weather, emergencies, planning, or runway changes. Wind correction is critical, especially crosswind drift on the outbound leg. Pilot Planning Nobody likes being put under pressure. The crosswind component.
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Flight Training Central
MAY 13, 2025
Most experienced pilots would be willing to admit that the perfect landing is much more of an art than a science. Best glide speed is only effective in strong crosswinds. When on final approach with a strong headwind your groundspeed will be lower than in a zero wind condition. Gliding distance to the runway will be reduced.
Flight Training Central
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
In the early days, pilots used a mechanical circular slide rule, called an E6B. Find the crosswind component for Runway 36 if the reported wind direction is 320 at 12 knots. Calculate the planned groundspeed if the winds aloft are forecast to be from 250 at 15 knots flying a true course of 130 with a true airspeed of 112 knots.
Pilot Institute
APRIL 22, 2025
Think of them as the lessons where you learn to master wind correction, aircraft control, and situational awareness all critical skills for a safe and proficient pilot. Base to Upwind Leg As your aircraft moves from the downwind leg onto the base leg, the tailwind transforms into a crosswind.
Air Facts
MARCH 10, 2025
In Defense of the Paper Nav Log Air Facts Journal We’ve all heard the stereotypes about the way age affects the abilities of student pilots. A mid-lifer often shows up equipped with ForeFlight or Garmin Pilot from the start. For a mid-life pilot, this seems like a criminal waste of time. “Those high school kids?
Air Facts
JUNE 6, 2025
Art, a friend from the nearby airport, told me that John, a local pilot out for a casual flight, had radioed in with a problem. My next idea was something I had learned as a relatively new pilot: a firm bounce on the runway using the main gear. A crosswind would have made things far more difficult. Still nothing.
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