Crosswind Component
One to think about.
My instinctive reaction is just give me the raw data and I am quite capable of translating that if I am on RWY 26 and the wind is 230 at 10 it isn't a problem. Plus I have a "gross error check" from the windsock which'll be pointing 30 degrees across the runway and hanging at 30-45 degrees from the vertical (dependent on it's calibrated speed).
If it was a wind of 180 at 20, I would have known long before I got to a "cleared to land, surface wind .... " situation that I was going to have some fun (if not being outside the demonstrated limits for the aeroplane) and anyway I would know how the aeroplane felt and what control inputs I was using to keep tracking the C/L.
On balance I think I prefer thing just as they are.
DGG
Last edited by Dave Gittins; 3rd Nov 2005 at 14:51.