PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Wind in A320
Thread: Wind in A320
View Single Post
Old 15th November 2009 | 21:28
  #9 (permalink)  
john_tullamarine
Fleet Manager
25 Anniversary
 
Joined: Apr 2001
: ATPL
Posts: 7,448
Likes: 310
From: various places .....
One relevant, if impertinent, anecdote I can relate ...

Many years ago, at 0-dark-30 on the way over the ditch (pre-FMS days), ATC requested a spot wind.

Now, the three of us, not having made such a calculation for some considerable time all retrieved our various prayer wheels, determined the input data and came up with three quite dissimilar answers.

During a second attempt the answer proved to be just as elusive.

Not being so crass as to nominate my own as being correct, we elected to average the answers, reported L&V to ATC to keep those worthy folk happy .. and still found our way to the destination on schedule ...

Perhaps there is a happy medium with the current fancier kit .. but, at the end of the day, there really isn't any need to measure the sector distance to the nearer millimetre ...
john_tullamarine is offline  
Reply