Chad Speer wrote:
This tool is basically meant to be a replay of a high altitude training
session, where the trainer can say "Okay, let's see what would have
happened if you had turned AAL460 fifteen left rather than descending
him." As it exists now, it is really cool, but a bit unrealistic. If
the winds are strong enough, a fifteen degree turn can easily add
twenty knots to a groundspeed. [..]

Chad, I think we need to stop and get the requirements, so we can help
better. I'm guessing how the program will work:

You have data from a training session. It has a recording of many
aircraft movements that you can play back. Perhaps you add one new
and controllable craft to the mix (AAL460 above?) and that's the one
that gets vectored by the trainee, to see what kind of trouble he can
get in/out of. Since all the other aircraft had been affected by wind,
the controllable plane needs the same flight input. Is this a good
description?

If so, I'm thinking that the wind within the 2000' block you talked
about, is a single fixed value for the entire training session. Would
that be fair to say? If that is true, then you don't need to
calculate the wind except once at the beginning. Can this be stored
for later use each time?

Just trying to get a handle on things,
Kev