Originally Posted by
Trip7
That would cost millions of dollars in unnecessary wear and tear on the engines. Performance Engineering's logic is pretty good, giving pilots tailwind numbers based on the latest METARs. Places like SLC where the winds change often need extra viligence and should be briefed as a threat in the WARTS
I'm not saying the top line needs to have a 10kt tailwind, they can leave that one how it is which is fine in most scenarios. But I see so many WDRs lately where it'll only give like 3kts of tailwind EVERY line. Why?? Especially at places where the winds are known to change quickly. The other day winds were variable at 5 and every single line had a 5kt tailwind..so we had to send a TOPR for more, because guess what? By the time we took off the winds were stronger.