Use this to reconstruct total wind speed from known headwind/tailwind and crosswind components, including signed components produced by another calculator.

The result is the Euclidean magnitude sqrt(headwind² + crosswind²), so component signs do not affect the total.^{[1, 2]}

The output loses direction and side information. Keep the original signed components when operational limits distinguish headwind, tailwind, left crosswind, and right crosswind.

Choose the neighboring tool according to whether you need the inverse conversion, a narrower calculation, or the next step in the workflow.

• Runway Wind Components

  Resolve a wind direction and speed into both components.

• Wind Speed from Components

  Use for north/east wind-vector components rather than runway axes.

• Quartering Wind Component

  Resolve reported wind-from direction and speed against a runway heading. Positive headwind means wind from ahead; a negative value is a tailwind. Signed crosswind is relative to the heading and should be interpreted with local runway convention.

• Crosswind Component Calculator

  Compute the magnitude of the crosswind component of a wind at an angle to the runway or course.

• Groundspeed Corrected Calculator

  Compute ground speed from true airspeed with signed headwind and crosswind components.