the "answer" starts with this sentence `I can't answer the question of the OP even remotely` @mins @SSumner: "Looks OK"? http://aviation.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/10254
I appreciate that Peter always can describe in detail the physical formulas needed to solve a problem, but damn, as a pilot how would you do that in your head while flying? aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/19182
(I suppose if you were really ambitious and had multiple speed lines on the POH chart you could pull out the POH and a pencil, draw the lines, and estimate the result.... but while your head was buried in the cabin doodling on the chart your Cessna just became a hood ornament on a 787 :)
Presumably he was referring to the left half of that panel :)
"set your airspeed and throttle in the climb and read the number off the VSI" - it's the fastest way to get the solution and it accounts for all factors (engine power/thrust, air density, aircraft weight...)
@JayCarr you just ask what you want, e.g. "deviating left of course for weather", or whatever it is you want to do
they'll usually let you do what you want (sometimes putting restrictions on the deviations), e.g. "deviation up to 30 degrees right of course approaved, after deviating fly direct XYZ report on course"
@casey Is "circling left of course to come around the other side" something you might say? Or is it more likely that you'd say, "deviating left for weather" then a minutes passes "deviating further left..." a couple more minutes "deviating a little further left....screw it, going in a circle and hitting the other side."
no idea how common it is. not really part of the thought process when asking for deviations. more of a "I need to do this" -> "ATC, I'm going to do this" workflow
its also possible they were going to go around to the left, but ATC felt it was better to bring them around the right side, which turned the left turn into a left 270ish turn
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