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bobcox

29th May 2005 13:41

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).

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 ....

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