Originally Posted by
DWC CAP10 USAF
Who gives a rats arse…
Climb when the flight plan tells you to…descend when flight plan tells you to. Update the cruise and descent winds when the ACARS tells you to.
Not going to land with with enough gas? Divert and let Scheds and the dispatcher figure it out.
No one is or should using FDPro or any other winds aloft graphical product for anything other than situational awareness. The flight plan software is far more advanced than whatever "math" can be done eyeballing a wind barb