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Leading Zero in Winds Aloft

8/3/2015 9:13 AM

Tinker

Joined: 2/9/2014

Posts: 109

Re: Leading Zero in Winds Aloft

Walter Boyd wrote:

We'll change Winds Aloft to show 3 digits. That's what we do already for degree readouts in our instruments. Runway numbers however are actual IDs, and used for communication - I don't think we should change those. We are adding wind flags to the thumbnail, which should help in selecting the best runway.

-Walter

Yup. All winds should be reported as three digits. Runways should be whatever is painted on the end. Good job!

Jim_W, funny that you should use 20 and 200 as your example. That's exactly what my ATP right-seater and I did. We somehow managed to interpret 20 on the G1000 METAR display as wind from 200 and we landed downwind on runway 20!