Winds & Flight Planning

[bobcox]

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]

Easy, don't correct for wind.

G

[Miserlou]

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]

Summed up perfectly by Gengis

SS

[helicopter-redeye]

Apply the 1:60 rule as you go ....