Source41 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 I was thinking of a nice enhancement for the EFB would be the ability to add the calm wind runways to the data so that when you are selecting your dep/arr runway if the wind is under a calm wind threshold it will have a suggestion of which runway to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonewulf47 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Not sure what you are referring to. We already display suitable and non-suitable RWYs according to the prevailig wind conditions. Suitable in that context means that the limits laid down in the present aircraft profile are observed. See attached screenshot. All RWYs depicted in GREEN are referred to as suitable. Greyed out means non-suitable - mostly for wind limits. It might however also be non-suitable due to length requirements. They are nevertheless selectable. A quick look to the Weather tab will also provide immediate access to the present wind data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Source41 Posted January 8, 2021 Author Share Posted January 8, 2021 Yep I understand that and use that feature a lot but what I am thinking about is being able to show in the remarks that for example that at EGLL when the tail wind component is less than 6 knots than the 27's are default in calm wind. It's usually more of a planning feature but I think it would be a nice addition. Example of how pfpx can be set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonewulf47 Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 Yes, I see what you mean but I'm afraid that we are unable to implement such limits. It would require individual limits for each airport inorder to reflect a certain operation regime due to winds. One limit for all will certainly not be suitable as there are airports where e.g. take-off RWYs (or landing RWYs) are maintained up to the max. tailwind limit due to several restrictions, be it operational or geographical. In addition to that this would be an additional database which need to be maintained manually, as there is no such information available worldwide in reasonable form. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Source41 Posted January 8, 2021 Author Share Posted January 8, 2021 No worries. Just thought it would be cool but yes there is no global database so it would have to be done manually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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