Figure 33

INSTRUMENT NAVIGATION

If you have a crosswind, you will have to crab to stay on your desired course. If you are

blown off course, you must correct back to course while still crabbing for the crosswind.

When you find that the wind has affected you, you must get back on course. Determine how

you got off course and then apply a crab to compensate. If you continue to get blown off course

you must increase your crab until you have compensated for the wind. Observe the aircraft in

Figure 33. It has been blown off course and has taken several tries to finally establish itself on

course.

Figure 33

If the crab is too large, the aircraft will cross the radial and continue off in the opposite

direction. (Figure 34)

Figure 34

3-24 RADIAL TRACKING AND COURSE CONTROL