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Is speed or velocity more helpful to a pilot?

Is speed or velocity more helpful to a pilot?
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Is speed or velocity more helpful to a pilot?

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From experience it is far more important to know where you are going (direction) than how fast you are going (magnitude), though both are ...
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Velocity, as it is is a vector quantity, so it has both direction and magnitude.
Speed is a scalar quantity, so it only has magnitude, no direction.
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