While wind cannot be checked all the time (in flight you will feel the turbulences but not so much the wind itself besides if you compare your indicated airspeed and the ground speed on your GPS) what you will certainly spot is the visibility issues.Ī lower visibility means you will hardly see in front of you if there is other aircrafts or some obstacles (mountains, cables, antennas and more). As G forces do increase with speed, you will have to fly under a given speed ( VA) to ensure you don’t over-stress your aircraft. With turbulences the G forces will increase. Each aircraft have a max G force they can sustain without having damages. Finally there is a speed / G force issue.Having sick people on board (vomiting or even just complaining), and having to fight to fly / land / take off, is certainly not fun. Turbulences are also what makes you passengers (pax) sick. Even a building near the runway will produce turbulences which may make your life as pilot harder. Turbulences can be an issue too, and you will have those even with a constant wind as soon as the ground is not flat.Why? Simply because wind is hardly laminar (constant and without turbulences) meaning you will need to fight all the time to compensate the wind and turbulences. Honestly even at 1/2 of the max cross wind, most pilots will have troubles in real life. Each aircraft have a defined limit of the crosswind component allowed, meaning if you have side wind (cross wind) which exceed the specified maximum, you may not be able to take-off / land safely as your tail will not be able to compensate for the cross wind component.Wind is relevant for a couple of reasons: There is basically 2 main issues for any VFR flight: wind and visibility. In this kind of flight you may actually never need to use the radio (while it’s certainly good practice even in non-controlled airfields).ĭue to the difference of the 2 kind of flight I will talk only about VFR and what is called VMC (Visual Meteo Conditions). You are not allowed to cross clouds and need to have a separation between clouds and the aircraft. VFR means you must always have visibility, be out of the clouds and ideally be able to know where you are based on what you see around you. VFR on the other side means Visual Flight Rules and this is what most private pilots do use. In this case visibility is not as important, while you must have visibility for taking off and landing (as nearly none of the GA plane can auto-land currently). IFR means Instrument Flight Rules, meaning you can’t really fly where and how you want, it’s the ATC which will coordinate your flight and you will rely mostly on the instruments to follow the instructions. I took also the US rules for airspace & cloud separation. Being myself from Switzerland, the rules described here are from my country or countries nearby. Therefore in real life you should control the rules of the countries where you will fly (like the different airspaces / altitudes). While there is a general rule set for aviation, there is also smallish (or not so smallish) difference between countries. However I shall explain still the concept and how you can prepare yourself in real life and how you could do basically the same within the Sim. (See examples below.Clearly within a Sim this is not the most important thing. For wind speeds higher than 50 knots, long and short barbs are used again in combination with the pennant(s). At 50 knots, the barbs changes to a pennant. One long barb is used to indicate each 10 knots with the short barb representing 5 knots.
Calm wind is indicated by a large circle drawn around the skycover symbol. A combination of long/short barbs and pennants indicate the speed of the wind in station weather that is rounded to the nearest 5 knots. After frontal passage, higher pressure moves over the station as indicated by the pressure rising more quickly. The steady or falling pressure will be the change in pressure before the front passes over the location.
#AEROWEATHER GOV CODE#
It is useful for determining motion of front.įor example, a typical pressure pattern for a cold front that has passed a station would be code 3, falling or steady, then rising or rising, then rising more quickly.
These symbols show the pressure trend during the past three hours. Steady or rising, then falling OR falling, then falling more quickly. Rising, then steady OR rising, then rising more slowly.įalling or steady, then rising OR rising, then rising more quickly.įalling, then rising, same OR lower than 3 hours ago.įalling, then steady OR falling, then falling more slowly.
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