Poorwise
Wannabe
For all of this, let's assume a steady wind speed and direction.
Before angled flight decks, heading into the wind was simple. If the wind was from 285°, then the helmsman would turn to 285°. Right?
With an angled flight deck, does a carrier head directly into the wind, or does it head slightly to the right so that the wind is coming more directly down the landing area. (Usually offset by around ~11°, if I understand correctly.) This seems to make sense in some ways besides having the wind straight down the landing path. One benefit would be pushing the burble from the island out of the flight path.
On the flip side, increasing the leftward vector tends to make the apparent rightward sliding of the landing strip even worse.
So what happens in the real world? If a carrier with an 11° angled deck has a 10kt wind from 0°, does it simply use a 0° heading, or does it go to 11° or more? Does the speed of the wind relative to the carrier's speed change the angle?
I hope this isn't a stupid question...
Before angled flight decks, heading into the wind was simple. If the wind was from 285°, then the helmsman would turn to 285°. Right?
With an angled flight deck, does a carrier head directly into the wind, or does it head slightly to the right so that the wind is coming more directly down the landing area. (Usually offset by around ~11°, if I understand correctly.) This seems to make sense in some ways besides having the wind straight down the landing path. One benefit would be pushing the burble from the island out of the flight path.
On the flip side, increasing the leftward vector tends to make the apparent rightward sliding of the landing strip even worse.
So what happens in the real world? If a carrier with an 11° angled deck has a 10kt wind from 0°, does it simply use a 0° heading, or does it go to 11° or more? Does the speed of the wind relative to the carrier's speed change the angle?
I hope this isn't a stupid question...