{"id":7750,"date":"2024-03-29T21:27:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T13:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/?p=7750"},"modified":"2024-03-29T21:33:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T13:33:01","slug":"whats-triangle-of-veolocities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/whats-triangle-of-veolocities\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Triangle of veolocities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reference : HKU Space materials<\/p>\n<p>Ans: it is using a vector concept to explain the relationship between <a href=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/whats-heading-whats-track\/\">HDG<\/a>\/TAS, <a href=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/whats-heading-whats-track\/\">TMG<\/a>\/GS and WV<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since the wind &#8216;blows&#8217; the aircraft from its air position (expected final position) to its ground position (actual final position), it is acceptable to assume that if the air position and the ground position are joined by a straight line, that straight line will in some way represent the wind velocity. When this line (wind velocity) is joined to two other lines representing the heading and track made good, a triangle is formed &#8211; this is the so called &#8220;Triangle of velocities&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7751\" src=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Trangle-of-veolocities.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1039\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Trangle-of-veolocities.png 1039w, https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Trangle-of-veolocities-300x92.png 300w, https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Trangle-of-veolocities-1024x314.png 1024w, https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Trangle-of-veolocities-768x236.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1039px) 100vw, 1039px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reference : HKU Space materials Ans: it is using a vector concept to explain the relationship between HDG\/TAS, TMG\/GS and WV &nbsp; Since the wind &#8216;blows&#8217; the aircraft from its air position (expected final position) to its ground position (actual final position), it is acceptable to assume that if the air position and the ground<a class=\"read-more \" href=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/whats-triangle-of-veolocities\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button default\">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,64,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atpl-knowledge","category-aviation","category-navigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7750"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7759,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750\/revisions\/7759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}