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    • Derives wind direction and speed from the reverse wind triangle. Given the observed groundspeed, true airspeed, true heading, and ground track, this computes the wind that explains the difference between the air vector and the ground vector.

      This is the inverse of solveWindTriangle: instead of finding the heading needed for a given wind, it finds the wind from observed heading and track data.

      Parameters

      • groundSpeedKt: number

        Observed groundspeed in knots.

      • trueAirspeedKt: number

        True airspeed in knots.

      • trueHeadingDeg: number

        True heading in degrees (0-360).

      • trueTrackDeg: number

        True ground track in degrees (0-360).

      Returns WindVector

      Wind direction (FROM) and speed.