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Compute the wind support (or wind profit) from groundspeed and windspeed.

All speed vectors are expressed as complex value where the real part corresponds to the east-west component and imaginary part to the north-south component. You can use abs() (or Mod()) to compute the norm (or absolute value) of the speed vector and speed_to_bearing() to compute the bearing/orientation of the speed vector. The latter simply compute the trigonometric angle of the speed vector with Arg() and convert this angle to a bearing (North = 0° instead of 90°).

Alternatively, if drift = TRUE, the function return the drift instead of wind support.

Usage

windsupport(windspeed, groundspeed, drift = FALSE)

Arguments

windspeed

windspeed as complex value

groundspeed

groundspeed as complex value

drift

return drift instead of windsupport

Value

wind support vector as complex value (same unit as gs and ws)