Planning for wind speed on fuel calculations
Afternoon all,
I know nothing of this, but what is put into fuel load pre-planning with wind predicitions? Can you get a full forecast for wind speeds and directions at your requested level right the way across a flight and does that go into your flight plan? I realise on North Atlantic Tracks they are planned to make use of the jetstream, but say on north to south in Europe/Africa is any use made of wind speed predictions - can you get them and do they factor into your calculations?
Cheers,
Andy