For those smarter than me...
I am puzzeled by my Skyview wind direction vector readings. I have a classic Skyview that I have about 200 hours on, more than 400 hours on the RV-7A. I also have a Garmin 496 as a backup GPS.
If you look at the images shown you will see that I flew in one direction and then reversed direction 180 degrees. Autopilot was engaged to keep the reading as constant as I could. Note the time difference between these photos was a little over a minute.
The Skyview compass heading matched my Garmin 496. The ground track still shows a left crosswind even though I reversed my heading. The difference between heading and track corrolated to the approximate crosswind magnititude. The wind direction didn't shift that much in a minute.
I have not seen the wind direction vector ever show a right crosswind.
On the ground both the Skyview Compass heading, Garmin Compass heading and Skyview Ground Track match exactly.
This type of issue is constant, never a right wind direction vector. Flew many flights to verify this. The plane flies true, and I even put it in a slip to see if that would change the readings, but it didn't.
Any ideas what is going on? Am I not understanding the wind director vector correctly?
I am puzzeled by my Skyview wind direction vector readings. I have a classic Skyview that I have about 200 hours on, more than 400 hours on the RV-7A. I also have a Garmin 496 as a backup GPS.
If you look at the images shown you will see that I flew in one direction and then reversed direction 180 degrees. Autopilot was engaged to keep the reading as constant as I could. Note the time difference between these photos was a little over a minute.
The Skyview compass heading matched my Garmin 496. The ground track still shows a left crosswind even though I reversed my heading. The difference between heading and track corrolated to the approximate crosswind magnititude. The wind direction didn't shift that much in a minute.
I have not seen the wind direction vector ever show a right crosswind.
On the ground both the Skyview Compass heading, Garmin Compass heading and Skyview Ground Track match exactly.
This type of issue is constant, never a right wind direction vector. Flew many flights to verify this. The plane flies true, and I even put it in a slip to see if that would change the readings, but it didn't.
Any ideas what is going on? Am I not understanding the wind director vector correctly?
