In real life, ATC gives a readout of the current winds with every takeoff and landing clearance. For example:
ATC: United 433, winds 040 at 8, runway 31L cleared for takeoff.
Or
ATC: United 433, wind 130 at 12 gusting to 19, runway 31L cleared to land.
It could be automatically added to every clearance. While it is unnecessary because you can check wind data from the HUD or instrument panel, it would are some realism to the sim.
I was thinking about this last night when Expert ATC were in the Denver region. Would be very helpful to alert pilots about crosswind conditions, etc.
I was thinking of this months ago!
This would be great.
this wud be great buyt 60% of the pepople prolly won’t care about the weather conditions
Surely YES!
Dont Forget the “realism” point
Sure, but it would be great for the other 40%.
That’s what ATIS is for
Yeah, but we don’t have ATIS, and airports with ATIS IRL still give a wind readout.
ya ik
part of that 40% right here
I would love to have this. It would be extremely useful for takeoffs.
I definitely say yes to this idea.
This is a must!
Wind is not given for every landing or takeoff in real life. As a controller I’m going to ask you to verify information…or the pilot can say I have the numbers. That’s alot of added work issuing wind and altimeter to every aircraft.
I get we have no ATIS on here, but the METAR has it.
Maybe not at all airports, but as far as I know all major ones do. For example, listen to JFK or LAX on liveatc.net. The winds are stated with every clearance. Where do you control?
We will find out in 2 weeks where my first tower is going to be lol. Yeah it all depends on the LOA with the airport. Now there are certain times we have to issue wind.
Whilst this is realistic, there is already a large amount of lag between instructions being issued and actually being spoken at busy airports - often you see the instruction but you don’t hear it for another minute or two since the voice is still catching up. This would just make that lag worse.
Yeah, but most people react to commands when they see them, not here them. You see them right away.
ATIS is not always an up to date thing. It is updated every hour in France. The ATC always give the wind when clearing someone for landing/ take-off.
And bear in mind not every airfield has an ATIS.
Some (quite annoying) pilots even request wind checks every 2 minutes during their final…