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Wind direction display error?


Lukasz

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First, look at the screens. Both were made during the same flight, with weather controlled only and entirely by REX.

Take note how the wind direction is displayed. X-Plane's weather menu shows it's blowing "from right to left" or from east to west, as indicated by the arrow and 101 direction. The same is shown by mini-window found on C400's PFD (a horizontal arrow with "20" next to it). Finally, the REX window shows a wind diagram, that loks the same - "from right to left".

So far so good. The only thing that puzzled me, was why under the wind diagram, REX has displayed wind direction as "266"? That alone would mean, that wind was blowing from west to east - while it was doing exactly opposite. It seems, that calculating wind direction numbers is reversed, from what it should be. Metars always tell, from what direction the wind is blowing, not where it is going, so a number between 90-110 would be correct.

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