Originally Posted by
Maoraigh1
I wish I did my landings at places where the wind never changed suddenly and unexpectedly.
Well, I can imagine Scotland has some worse winds than Rotterdam, but still, I'm right inside the aircraft that's being tossed around by the wind, so I experience everything first hand. While the controller is in his comfy tower and needs to read the wind from a scope. Which is fed by a measuring device that it some distance away from both him and me.
Which of the two is going to give me the best information, to make a split-second decision whether to go around or not?