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Old 5th Dec 2011, 11:13
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aerobat77
 
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General convention is to plan on nil wind. However, the actual landing is predicated on the reported (or forecast) wind.

thats correct, but in this case i cannot follow you gents in regard to reduced margins adding 50% wind to the vref on actual condintions and planned with zero wind for a given runway.

to keep it simple : having an Vref of 100 kt IAS and zero wind gives you a GS of 100 kt on final ( neglegating the IAS-TAS on that small altitudes) . this will result on a given runway xx landing distance and xx margins to runway end.

having 10 kt headwind and adding 50% of it to the Vref will result in Vapp of 105 kt IAS and just 95 kt GS and this will reduce landing distance and improve the margins- the runway has the same lengtht with or without wind .

so you a ) go slower above the ground ab b) have bigger margins for landing on actual vs planned conditions since its common knowledge that headwind reduces landing distance.

what i am missing ?

best regards !
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