Good day infinite family can you please explain this for me how do you know the wind speed by this I know one is the degrees and the aero shows what way the wind is moving but the other one next to the degrees what is that example 264/106 what does 106 mean thank you so much and God bless every one with health and safety and happiness. 🙏 ❤️ 😁 🙏
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This means that the wind is blowing at a direction of 264 degrees at a speed of 107 knots…
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Thank you so much tho I appreciate it so much for the help one more question how much knots must it be before you experience turbulence. Or a bumpy flight. 🙏❤️
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I’m not sure exactly, but usually anything above 20 knots is considered turbulance.
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And how much wind in mid flight would you say would be turbulence because it’s 103kts now and I don’t have much turbulence. 🙏 ❤️
Where are you flying right now?
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It also depends on the wind speeds changing and other factors. Wind speeds above 100kts at high altitudes aren’t something too rare
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Turbulence can happen at any wind speed
Turbulence happens when the airflow isn’t perfectly smooth.
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You can see the arrow pointing downward which would be at you, this means you’re getting headwinds which would cause less turbulence. If the arrow was pointed left or right, that’s crosswind in which the effect the winds will have on your aircraft may increase in terms of turbulence.
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Thank you all so much for your responses and help I really do appreciate it so extremely much you must all have a great day and God bless you and your families in every day with health care and happyness and safety. 🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️
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The standby instruments indicate that you are at fl370. 264/107 means the wind is blowing from a heading of 264 at 107 knots. At these altitudes, that is perfectly normal because you will encounter jetstreams (more information about jetstreams: Jet stream - Wikipedia)
There are different kinds of turbulence you can experience while cruising:
- Frontal turbulence
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Windshear (can occur while flying in a jetstream, like you are)
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Clear air turbulence
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Thx sooo much for all that information I do appreciate it so much and God bless you and your family in every day with health care and happyness and safety ❤️🙏❤️🙏
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Just to clarify here, wind in blowing from direction of 264° and blowing towards 84°
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^This exactly. You could have 100 knot winds and have (relatively) little turbulence where your plane just sort of bobs around. You could also have 30 knot winds with altitude fluctuations of 100 feet or more. It just kind of depends on where you are.
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I’ve never been appreciated so much for answering a question 😂
You have a good day too my good sir 👍
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Same to you take care…
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The way to decode this is as follows:
HDG/SPD
For example, the winds could be 140/12, meaning the wind is 12kts at 140 degrees. Hopefully this helps
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