Timeline for How do I calculate the required heading for an aircraft carrier with an angled deck to sail into the wind?
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| Nov 26, 2018 at 19:04 | comment | added | jamesqf | Just for curiousity's sake, why do you want to calculate it? Rather than say point the ship more or less into the wind, then look at the wind sock and make corrections? (Which you might have to do anyway, as winds change...) | |
| Nov 23, 2018 at 6:45 | answer | added | xxavier | timeline score: -1 | |
| Nov 19, 2018 at 19:38 | comment | added | Michael Hall | @Tad Chamberlain, just to clarify, you are absolutely correct in your statement that "as the ship speed increases the relative wind direction will move closer and closer to the ship’s heading." However, the answer I gave below is also true. This is the trade-off... | |
| Nov 19, 2018 at 19:34 | comment | added | Michael Hall | @Juan Jimenez, I wish I could just walk up to the bridge to ask them how they do it! But, I imagine it isn't too complicated... | |
| Nov 19, 2018 at 18:55 | answer | added | Michael Hall | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 19, 2018 at 13:42 | comment | added | Juan Jimenez | Where are we going to find a carrier to test the answer? :) | |
| Nov 19, 2018 at 2:44 | comment | added | Michael Hall | If the ship has to steam forward to make its own wind, it will never be right down the angled deck. Just the limitations of the layout. | |
| Nov 18, 2018 at 0:08 | comment | added | Tad Chamberlain | As I think about this further, I see it’s not right. Heading the ship 10 right of the natual wind would put wind down the angle only when the ship was stopped. As the ship speed increases the relative wind direction will move closer and closer to the ship’s heading. | |
| Nov 17, 2018 at 8:10 | comment | added | Tad Chamberlain | Ha! Yeah, I think you’re right. Thet’d give you a bit less than 30 kts, but pretty durn close. I was making it waaay too hard. Thanks. | |
| Nov 17, 2018 at 4:53 | history | edited | Pondlife | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 17, 2018 at 3:53 | comment | added | Ron Beyer | Is it not 10 degrees and 20 knots? | |
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| Nov 17, 2018 at 1:54 | history | asked | Tad Chamberlain | CC BY-SA 4.0 |