Originally Posted by Basil
ejj or any HK hands,
CLK ATC used to issue windshear warnings as: Max shear and distance from touchdown of first encounter.
e.g. Something like "20kn loss at 5nm final"
Which actually meant first encounter would be at 5nm and somewhere between there and touchdown the 20kn loss would take place i.e. the 20kn loss would not necessarily be at 5nm.
The phraseology could be misleading to occasional visitors and I wonder, for the benefit of readers, if you can say if this is still the case.
So far as I know this is still the case.