Wind Sensor - Furuno FCR-2107 Series Operator's Manual

15. Navigation Sensors
15.8

Wind Sensor

chart radar can display and output wind data in the following three formats:
Apparent: Windmeter-measured wind speed and direction.
Wind angle reference: Heading
North: True wind angle, true wind speed
Wind angle reference: True North
Theoretical: True wind angle, true wind speed
Wind angle reference: Heading
The illustration below shows wind speed and direction with given ship data.
The wind values are as shown below.
Ship information:
COG: 60 deg SOG: 8.7 kt
Heading: 45 deg
Wind angle
Apparent: 345 deg
North: 330 deg
Theoretical: 285 deg
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Wind speed
10 kt
5 kt
5kt