Winds & Flight Planning
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Winds & Flight Planning
Just interested to know how you treat VRB and CALM winds in your flight planning (such as this afternoons F214 over Central & SW England).
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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.
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.
