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Old 12th Jun 2009, 10:22
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Better to give the up to date 2 min average magnetic wind on departure than the old 10 min average true bearing. Yes I know the ATIS wind and can work out whether there's a significant change but why bother performing that calculation up to thirty times an hour?

We're too busy for that and I normally have plenty of better uses for that thinking time.

A superfluous wind check is far less superfluous than "bye-bye" and "good-day" and all that stuff.

The wind is a more dynamic quantity than temp or QNH and changes more rapidly - it's a good habit to give it all the time.

If you're not in the habit, the one time you get distracted and fail to pass on a significant change may be the one time it'll feature in an incident report.
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