Wingtip Vortices and Wake Turbulence
Pilot Institute
MARCH 28, 2025
When air flows over the aircraft wing, the shape of the airfoil creates low pressure above the wing and relatively higher pressure below the wing. Pilots can find out the prevailing winds aloft such as from the NOAA Aviation Weather Center and predict the vortices direction and rate of drift behind the preceding aircrafts flight path.
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