Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 8:21am.
If you make a diagram you will see that the wind is at right angles to the direction of the plane, so we can use basic trig.
Let Ø be the angle opposite the 30 , (the wind speed).
tan Ø = 30/240 = .125
Ø = 7.125°
the other angles are now easy, remember the largest is 90°
bearing of plane = N 67.125° E
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