On your initial outbound leg, you time for 1 minute. Your time on the inbound leg is 50 seconds. To adjust for wind, how long should you fly outbound on your next leg?

To determine the appropriate outbound leg time adjustment for wind, it's important to understand how the wind affects flight duration. In this scenario, the outbound flight took longer (1 minute) than the inbound flight (50 seconds), indicating that there was likely a headwind during the outbound leg and a tailwind during the inbound leg.

To compensate for the headwind and maintain an average ground speed, you need to increase the outbound leg time on the next flight segment. In this case, since the outbound leg was originally timed at 1 minute, and the inbound leg at 50 seconds, there’s a notable difference in how the wind impacted your time.

Adjusting for wind typically involves adding some additional seconds to match the time you spent returning. In this scenario, the correct calculation should increase the original outbound time sufficiently to accommodate for the wind conditions experienced. Choosing an adjustment of 1 minute and 10 seconds provides a reasonable buffer against the wind, allowing for better efficiency on the next leg.

Based on this logic and wind compensation practices in aviation, the choice of increasing your outbound leg to 1 minute and 10 seconds effectively addresses the time discrepancy while optimizing your flight path in subsequent navigation sessions.