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[anthonybrowne]

In 3 minutes and 40 seconds, you taught me something I've been struggling with for months! Thank You!

[esalenchik]

you've got a knack for this teaching thing. You made this so simple, even a student pilot like me can both understand it and know how to use it every time.
Thank you from a fellow Aussie :)

[SaifRabbani]

The Best 1 in 60 rule explanation on the internet!

[hugoviens]

As a visual learner, I must admit your videos are an immense help!

[SimpleTakeoffs]

Best video I’ve found on YouTube on the 1 in 60 rule, thank you!

[solamigos]

Thanks, very helpful. The most straight forward, simple explanation out there! Regards from ATPL student in Greece.

[jli]

Noticed there’s a triangulation during the landing path. The distance of the path the airplane going through is longer than the ground course that the airplane has, which means that you will arrive slower than calculated time. Same thing happens when you do the climbing.

[nicolateet]

So far, best right to the point teaching videos available on Youtube, thank you !

[TheAviatorFSX]

Thanks for the video! This has helped me to finally understand the 1 in 60 rule.

[shreedhar]

My first time hearing about this rule in aviation. It is an interesting shorthand but remember folks, this rule is a consequence of small angle approximation in trigonometry so it will not work if correction angles are 10DEG or more.

[jmarcosvieira]

Videos likes this makes me really proud for understanding english, all of your videos are by far the best explanations on internet.

Best regards from a brazilian pilot.

[silver]

My god....This is golden! Best explanation of this rule ive come across on the interwebz. Thanks alot!

[World_citizen_]

Thanks for the video!! I was like i need someone to explain it to me like i am 5 years old to understand it and you made it!!! Really helpful 👌

[AstroCZE]

Note that the actual track error in the last example is 3.63°, the correction angle is 9.09° (i.e. with 14° correction, you'd cross the direct line 3.14 nm earlier and miss the target by 0.57 nm in the y (north-south?) axis) and that the numbers obtained using the 1 in 60 rule without rounding would add up to 12.95° (i.e. missing the target by 0.62 nm on the x-axis and by 0.10 nm on the y-axis). Lesson learnt: if possible, use a calculator so that you don't have to round the numbers.

[Uncommon_Sense]

Just found this channel, watched 3 videos and subbed!! Great explanations and glad it's relative to Australia 😄👍

[JDSnowb]

This is super helpful for the commercial and fight instructor written. Thank you!

[tdhnad]

We have to be careful that this rule can only be a rough estimate and only works for a small off track variance. It won't work if it is so large. For example: if you are 20nm off track after travelling 20nm then the TE is 45 degrees. But using this 1 in 60 rule, it becomes 60 degrees and that is wrong. Times it by 2 for the total TE + CA if that is a halfway mark then it becomes 120 degree when it should have been only 90.

[tylerlaroque]

The equation for a situation where you have the drift and distance traveled and are looking for the distance off track is
(Distance traveled X Drift) / 60 = distance off track

[Vondoodle]

it’s amazing how relevant a 9year old video is

[drabberfrog]

That's so much work! Just use law of sines or law of cosines respectively to find the angle theta.