I'm back to 6.5 until ASA is updated a little more, which I'm fine with.Just a question to refresh my memory; how did I used to figure my average head/tail wind component? I honestly can't remember!!Thanks,- daniel

Hi,I wish I knew so I could remind you, but I have no idea!Thanks

Hi,You have to import a flightplan (or enter the necessary fields in the dialog box), process it and look at the navlog. At the bottom of the navlog you will find the average wind during your planned flight.RgdsReinhard

Sorry, I should have elaborated.I know that you import a flightplan and then it gives you an average wind direction and strength. But that does not give you and average head/tail-wind component. However, I believe I remember what I used to do, which worked with some level of accuracy; take all my headings from my flightplan, work out the average and then apply the average wind direction and strength against that, much in the way I do for my real life VFR flightplans in a cessna (skills learned on the way to a provate pilot's lic). For a VFR flightplan in real life this is one thing (fairly accurate, although a little time consuming using an E6B 'flight computer', aka 'the sliderule of death'). However this is a long, laborious and hit and miss proposition for a trans-atlantic/intercontinental flight on FS2004. ASA does this for you, which is one killer feature of the program (I'll go back to it the minute it's patched to the level that my aircraft stop falling from the sky).Unless someone knows a better way, by chance? I would dearly love to find an application or technique that whittles this process down...- daniel

FSBuild will read the ASv6.5 winds and give you an average head/tail wind and winds at each way point in the flight plan.Jim Harnes

Ah, yes.Then I just add all those numbers together, get the average, and away I go! THAT's how I used to do it! Thanks for the reminder.- daniel

There was a post some time ago which stated the winds in FSBuild, obtained from ASv6.5, were more accurate than the winds in the AS nav log. Anyone remember that?Jim Harnes