A320 Status page understanding difficulty

[Uplinker]

Originally Posted by vilas

How do you calculate the LDR without any airfield data? Wind, braking action, LW etc? You need to decide the airport get the ATIS, only then you can find LDR.

Blimey, this is hard work ! Seriously ?

........You ask ATC to get the current weather and runway state of your destination airfield plus a couple of others, (or you listen to a few ATIS yourself if they are within range), to give you options as part of DODAR, (other mnemonics are available). That's what we always do in the Sim and no TRE has ever told us not to.

If you descend all the way down and approach an airfield, but only then - when getting the ATIS - you find the runway is too short for your particular failure, you have wasted time, fuel and potential energy.