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Flight plan leg winds
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2020 5:39 pm
by bobpr
Does the 350 account for climb, cruise and descent leg winds? Also, the format for leg winds is 000T/000. Dumb question: What does the 'T' stand for? Thank you.
Having a ball with the new version.
Bob
Re: Flight plan leg winds
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2020 6:13 pm
by SAS443
Hi
I dont think the FMS in milviz 350i accounts for any wind data entry (I made several different inputs and both ETA and FoB remained unchanged)
Letter "T" indicates True North orientation, which is pretty handy since winds aloft are reported as "true" (both in value and graphical arrow pointers on weather charts)
Small gotcha: Tower reported wind and ATIS /AWOS is magnetic!
Re: Flight plan leg winds
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2020 9:17 pm
by Matthieu-C
Hi,
Letter "T" indicates True North orientation
Are you sure? As far as I am concerned, it means Tailwind.
Re: Flight plan leg winds
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2020 10:27 pm
by SAS443
Matthieu-C wrote: ↑Sun Apr 12, 2020 9:17 pm
Hi,
Letter "T" indicates True North orientation
Are you sure? As far as I am concerned, it means Tailwind.
Yes T as a velocity prefix means tailwind "T55"
But T as direction suffix "280T/20", which the OP asked about, is about True North orientation.
Re: Flight plan leg winds
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2020 10:31 pm
by jarek
There are 3 formats accepted by this FMS.
1. True North - in "direction/speed" format, like 110/20
2. Tail/headwind - like T30, H12
3. Plus/Minus - P30, M30. Plus means Tailwind
2. and 3. will be recalculated into format #1.