hey everyone Jason Schaffer here of m0 a.com in this video I want to give you
my most valuable checkride tip and that is to create what's called a wind card
you see on your Private Pilot check ride or really any check ride for that matter
there is going to be a cross-country diversion you'll be doing your maneuvers
you'll be maybe you'll be out on your fictitious cross country you may get to
the first checkpoint and then he or she that being the check ride examiner will
say give me a diversion to this Airport maybe it's somewhere you've been before
maybe it's not an airport you've been to before but you need to answer three very
simple questions with that what heading do will I need to be on do I have enough
fuel to get there and how long will it take me to get there well I can help you
out with all of those things by creating this wind card seat by creating a wind
card I'm creating my ground speed for a bunch of cardinal direction headings so
I know if I turn out to the west I know generally to the west this will
be my ground speed then knowing my ground speed I can answer how long will
it take me to get there and how much fuel will I burn do I have enough fuel
to actually get there let's look at here on the giant a six beat first let's go
ahead and just work through it here then you can work through the rest and make
your own wind card for that day of the check rabbit practice first first things
first we mark our wind direction underneath our true index let's make it
real easy let's just say the winds are out of the north
next we mark the wind velocity up from the center point just so we get some
good variation let's say it's at 20 knots three six zero at to zero so the
center holds at a hundred I like to leave it there so it's easier to count
up there's one ten there's one twenty so that's 20 and I'm gonna put a big red X
there just so you can see what that looks like so it's the center of this
red X is showing us that there next it says to put our or set our true course
under arch index so now we're gonna go through and
you're gonna end up doing this for each heading because let's do it for East
let's say and then it says lastly ground speed or when we slide I'm sorry
slide the wind velocity mark to our true airspeed so our true airspeed is let's
say a hundred and ten let me move that so we have it there BAM got it and now
my ground speed will read under Center as you can see so I can see my ground
spell action to be 102 for about one hundred six hundred and seven on an
easterly heading I could then take this I know my wind correction angles I could
then take this as well and do it for a southerly heading here
remember I need to slide that wind velocity mark to my true airspeed so we
said it was about a hundred and ten I can now see I have a hundred and thirty
knots cuz I read my ground speed under center and what I want you to do on your
wind card is work all the way around work every you know every 30 degrees
perhaps and then go ahead and slide again that wind mark over underneath
that true airspeed right there a hundred ten and read underneath the center hole
so on a two three zero we're about a hundred and twenty four so when you
create this wind card and you put your ground speed around every thirty degrees
around those cardinal directions and you attach that to your knee board when the
check read examiner when they ask you hey we're gonna divert to this Airport
you quickly look it's out to the west you get heading in that general
direction here you instantly know from looking at your wind card o on West my
ground speed is roughly a hundred and twenty great now I can answer the
question how long will it take me to get there and we do that on the other side
of our calculator and then we can answer the question of do I have enough fuel to
make it there then once we answer those questions we can fine tune the heading
but get heading in that general direction first create a cross-country
diversion wind card I'm telling you be again
changer come diversion time on your check ride you're gonna do a diversion
on any check ride you take I had a diversion on my ATP check ride and every
check ride before that create the wind card listen if you need help
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