yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

How winds affect planes!


less than 1m read
·Nov 3, 2024

Processing might take a few minutes. Refresh later.

You can make it to South Africa; however, this is with no wind.

So now, this was the winds last week at 35,000 ft. We're going to put a 50-knot wind, and normally you could see that the winds around the world generally go from west to east. So, even though they're not a straight line, you have high pressure, low pressures, and things like that. But generally, you can see how the winds are always going this way.

So, what this means is that you're going to be able to fly faster when you're going east, and you're not going to be able to go as far on range, or it's going to take you longer when you're going west because the wind is pushing against you. So, you can see that here.

You can make Singapore with all these airplanes. You can make Manila with these airplanes, and you can easily make London. But if you were to start now in Singapore, you are just barely—matter of fact, if the winds get a little bit worse and get to 75 knots average, you're not going to make it back in that G280.

If you don't mind putting it, I do plan on returning back in the next few years. I'm also just buying another house in Cape Town at the moment, so I'd like to see from London to Cape Town.

Okay, so from London, you won't make Cape Town. I'll tell you: if you wanted to make Cape Town...

More Articles

View All
"America's Best Idea" - President Obama on National Parks | National Geographic
Two of your predecessors felt very much the same thing, didn’t they? Teddy Roosevelt walked these very trails through these redwood trees along with John Muir, the father of the American conservation movement, and these granite mountains. They lit a fire …
Ellipse standard equation from graph | Precalculus | High School Math | Khan Academy
So we have an ellipse graph right over here. What we’re going to try to do is find the equation for this ellipse. So like always, pause this video and see if you can figure it out on your own. All right, so let’s just remind ourselves of the form of an e…
15 Reasons Why Real Estate is the Best Investment
Halloway Luxor’s! We’re thrilled to have you back for another amazing Sunday motivational video, especially today when we’re breaking down why real estate is and has been the best go-to investment for building wealth. By the end of this one, you should ha…
Limits of composite functions | Limits and continuity | AP Calculus AB | Khan Academy
Let’s now take some limits involving composite functions. So over here we have the limit of G of H of x as x approaches three. And like always, I encourage you to pause the video and see if you can figure this out on your own. Well, we can leverage our l…
Populations, communities, and ecosystems | Middle school biology | Khan Academy
In biology, it’s useful to have some shared language so we can communicate and describe the world around us in ways that we can all understand together. So here, we’re going to talk about populations, communities, and ecosystems, and as we’ll see, these …
Example free response question from AP macroeconomics | AP Macroeconomics | Khan Academy
Video, I want to tackle an entire AP Macroeconomics free response exercise with you. Assume that the economy of Country X has an actual unemployment rate of seven percent, a natural rate of unemployment of five percent, and an inflation rate of three perc…