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Thanks for your comments and replies. I do not see this as being intuitive, even with an arrow, when the definition of wind direction is exactly the opposite and nothing in the manual is to be found to explain this. What I am essentially entering is only the directional component of the wind vector. For training purposes in the Yak-52 to see why I am having issues with its flight model, I wanted to set a headwind directly down the runway axis and ended up setting a fat tailwind... No big deal here, just highlighting something I find to be totally unconventional. This is not just another perspective as you state, but more a change of the accepted definition of a term that leads to unnecessary confusion. Of course nothing to lose sleep over :) A

Thanks Shadow for your reply... The briefing uses the term nav wind (which I have never seen or heard of in any aviation or meteorological context). It is definitely not showing up in the briefing "the other way round". This is anything but conventional... All the wind direction definitions I can find online (from weather compendia, Wikipedia, weather sites, government weather agencies) state that the direction is the origin of the air movement, not the direction in which the air mass is moving... @SV: I see no difference in Russian METARs either. The only Russian difference I know is the fact that m/s is used as a unit and not knots. Thanks for the reply. Andrew

Dear ED Forum, first off, I am really new to DCS World, after having spent years on FSX/P3D and more recently on X-Plane. I have a specific question relating to the modelling of weather, as my observations do not make sense to me. When I read a METAR, a weather report, I have information on the wind direction as a bearing and a windspeed, normally in knots. The wind direction is given as a bearing of origin, i.e. the direction from which the wind is coming. So, winds with direction 090° originate in the east and are blowing west. This means that the windsock for the runway should be pointing west, i.e the larger opening attached to the pole is at the eastern end and the small opening is at the western end. In DCS World though, I have been seeing the exact opposite. Windsocks are pointing with the small opening into the wind, which is physically impossible, since that end is not attached to the pole... I am confused... :huh: Could anyone assist here or explain what is going on? Thanks in advance Andrew