On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 09:04:37 -0800, "C J Campbell"
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"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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| On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 16:00:48 +0100, Thomas Borchert
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| Larry,
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| Aside from ground speed, and three dimensional position (and time of
| day), what other information does GPS provide?
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| Wind speed and direction, for example.
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| I wasn't aware of that. What GPS has the capability to display wind
| speed and direction?

Most of them. In fact, I have not seen an aviation GPS which does not have
this capability. However, the feature is invariably so buried in a bunch of
sub-menus that it is almost useless.


Without a heading information input to the GPS (most handhelds), it
would not seem possible for the GPS to calculate wind speed and
direction. Magic??