Sunday, January 18, 2009

Article: "When VFR is IFR"

An explanation of IFR to VFR on Top, Special VFR, and Contact approaches By Fletcher Anderson in SWAviator

Coriolis effect

I spent a lot of time searching flight instruction materials for the answer to the question, "Coriolis Effect affects the wind to the right, OK, but to whose right?" All the explanations I saw seemed to mean "East" instead of right.

This presentation answered it for me--"...as viewed from the direction of original movement."