bobcox
29th May 2005, 13:41
Just interested to know how you treat VRB and CALM winds in your flight planning (such as this afternoons F214 over Central & SW England).
Genghis the Engineer
29th May 2005, 15:59
Easy, don't correct for wind.
G
Miserlou
29th May 2005, 19:31
If you have a variable wind (adopts Eccles voice and reads, "Winds, light and variable") you might want o be a little conservative and use a 10 knot headwind on all legs.
At work we have some semi-completed flight plans. We work out the average wind component for the route and round up to the next figure. Our plans have fuel and time figures for +20, 0, -20, -40, -60, and -80 knots.
shortstripper
29th May 2005, 19:46
Summed up perfectly by Gengis :ok:
SS
helicopter-redeye
29th May 2005, 20:08
Apply the 1:60 rule as you go ....