Wind check!

[sky37d]

I have asked for wind check, a couple, and it is has been something I didn't want to hear. However, also frequently, I have had it offered, and again, it was not something I wanted to hear. The most memorable was "Wind 270 at 33 gust to 40".

Fortunately, I was landing on 27. It was the day I was supposed to take my IFR check ride. The examiner called me up, after I landed, to say it was "real windy, we shouldn't fly today".

 

[Milkdud99]

Wind Check!

Wind is 359@10 G 55

 

[Bill Mostellar]

Someone may have already said it, but we have to add winds to our approach speed if there is a gust factor. That could be the reason you hear it so often.

I don't usually ask unless the plane is telling me that the winds on final are different than what the ATIS said there winds are supposed to be at the field.