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Old 31st Aug 2016, 00:54
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Originally Posted by Underfire
The winds are usually measured at only one location per airport. What can be worse if they are measured at multiple locations and then averaged together.
Even at my backwater port we get the threshold wind, on Final, from ATC. If the other winds on the airport are majorly different, ATC will tell us. I severely doubt Dubai would not have a similar system. This "averaged" wind concept is probably a furphy.
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