Originally Posted by
portmanteau
Ian, Twr cleared 521 to land wind 100 11 kts ( and 20 seconds later said climb 4000 ft).
And I have cleared many many aircraft to land using the same mantra of 'Land - surface wind' - but the anemometer was not by the TDZ. Indeed in many airports it can be half a runway away from the TDZ. If you go back in the thread to the description of the winds at DXB you will see that they have a sea breeze front at certain times of day when the ambient wind is in a particular direction. So the tower provided surface wind may be totally misleading. I don't know perhaps they have LIDAR to provide a precise TDZ surface wind - but normally giving one surface wind for a 4km runway is a little misleading.