Wind Direction and Speed Indication on HDX

[baldcaldwell]

What does this mean? On my flight home from Oshkosh yesterday, I saw this. I understand the wind direction is from 300 and I am correcting to the right, but what is 51? Can't possibly be wind speed could it? I'm at 3,000' and I'm pretty sure the wind is not blowing that hard.

Thanks!

 

[kurtfly]

That is exactly what it is saying. 51 knots. It is calculated from your track, mag heading, tas and ground speed. If your compass or airspeed are inaccurate by a small amount it will affect this a lot.

 

[lancair360]

Probably compass error. I've been dealing with it for months

 

[Stevec]

A quick look at the figures shown and a couple of minutes with a E6B shows that there is a wind correction angle of 23 degrees and a ground speed of 132kts. I suspect the information shown is correct.

 

[lancair360]

Doesn't matter what the wind is...if the compass is off you'll get all sorts of weirdness. Garbage in/garbage out.

 

[jakej]

Hard to believe- I don’t think so just wish it was a tailwind -