Hello,

+x

 

Tim Dawson - 6/2/2021 9:08:40 AM

Surface wind is extremely variable based on local conditions and it not be particularly safe for us to offer the surface wind at a nearby airfield, in order to help you calculate potential cross and head/tailwind components at another airfield.

Agree. A small two text fields when one could put wind direction & speed and then get it calculated would be good though (would only stay there for 5 minutes and then one would have to put new values in manually again). I've just checked Approch Information for EGSS, it shows "Surface Wind: 090, 10kt". Perhaps it should marked the values as obtained from METAR ("Surface Wind: 090, 10kt (METAR)") and both values should be editable. In case there is no METAR for a given airport these would be empty and one could put them in manually. Even if there is a metar one should be able to change them (in which case "METAR" would change to "MANUAL" or something like this).