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Old 31st Aug 2016, 19:56
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langleybaston
 
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One of my tasks as a P Met O was airfield inspection re. siting and maintenance of instruments. I can vouch that on RAF airfields there was great care taken to site the anemometer well within the known rules, and many anemos were extremely well sited. Civil UK was a very different matter. One was so bad that I refused to sign off the inspection as satisfactory.

Whatever and however "wind" is measured: vertical motion, many sites, gusts, algorithms ........, I find it difficult to understand what use ever finer detail will be to a landing captain. I think the answer may be education rather than instrumentation.

The wind it bloweth where it listeth, and no observation[s] are infallible predictors.
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