CRZ Wind question about MCDU!

[BlueBlood]

I have talked with an A320 pilot, he told me in real A320, the CRZ WIND in the MCDU's Fuel/PRED function, will be autoupdated.
I'm interested about PM's MCDU, I always need enter the CRZ WIND data manually, why not make it automatic collecte the data from FS?

Thanks.

Andrew
2007-03-13

[Bob Reed]

I am not sure on this, you will need to check with PM but I think there GetWeather program does this but not from FS, real weather.

[BlueBlood]

GetWeather? Hmmmm........I will try it.
I'm using ASV 6.5 now for online real time weather, I don't know will GetWeather can work with it or not, I will try.

Thanks.

Andrew

[Bob Reed]

Well I use that as well. But my CRZ winds.. I don't think, have ever populated themselves....

[BlueBlood]

Hmmmm......have tried the GetWeather, connect to FS, and found the netdir, and down the sat file, and save sat image, and......

error message: 481
invalid picture

I don't know what's the message means......

Andrew
2007-03-13

[Bob Reed]

It means it didn't like what it got from the satalite.... Hmmmm

[3202b]

I'm pretty sure this function does not work with the PM MCDU, the CRZ wind input is only there for show - it doesn't actually have any effect on the route time/fuel pred at all at the moment. You also have to input the crz wind manually at the moment. Enrico said that he will in the future implement route winds and CRZ wind features.

[Bob Reed]

Hey Ben. Thanks for the update!

[dodiano]

By the way the CRZ wind is not updated automatically on teh MCDU... I will have to disagree with that... Unless your friends Airline has something else but I don`t think so... Plus you need to be re entering manually winds because tehy change all the time and give you amore accurate Fuel Prediction and that is done making a Vertical Revision on a fix and the WIND you can update it there.

Take care

Roberto

[BlueBlood]

Thanks Roberto, I don't know more about that, my friend is from China Western Airline, he told me that.

But anyway, thank u very much for the information.

Andrew