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EHM-2144 Terry:
Could someone confirm to me that when taking wind direction into account the direction is taken from where the wind is coming from and not where it's blowing to.

Terry

EHM-1009 Kevin:
I believe that if you are flying a heading of 270 and the wind is at 270/65 you have a very strong tail wind if the wind was at 90/65 you would have a very strong head wind. hope this answers yr question.

EHM-1651 Christian:
The wind is always named by direction is originating.

EHM-1001 Robert:
Exactly ;) I think the above example was not good.

What I do not understand with winds, is why you should steer a little to wind direction when landing ? For example, if you have a left wind you need to steer a little to the left (against it) :s As the wind hits the tail mainly, I do not understand this phenom ;D

EHM-1612 Paolo:
http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/4981/windcorrectionlo8.gif

If the rwy is BA (approximately hdg 200), the wind is blowing from 315° at 40knots, you need to correct to hdg 230 to center the runway.
If you don't correct hdg wind pushes you on the right, you'll land but probably on a farm or a field :)
I've never calculated it, you just try it and you get the correct hdg quite easily
Hope this helps ;)

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